Thursday, March 11, 2010

IPL 2010 Starts tomorrow !

The third edition of the Indian Premier League starts tomorrow. Apart from World T20 and World Cup, IPL has become the most exciting and interesting cricket tournament ever. With all those theories and controversies about the commercialization of cricket what I believe is that it has now become a business, but still I don’t care about that as long as it gives entertainment. These days all those cricket experts talks about preserving test cricket and about limiting T20s.But I think its T20s that has made cricket more popular . And with T20s, cricket is no longer a game to be watched by old people and kids who have a lot of time to kill in their day time. It has become a game where people can enjoy even after coming home after a tiring day at the office without missing any moment of action.
It is still unclear whether some local TV channel is telecasting this tournament. In last two tournaments Sirasa TV (IPL 1) and Channel Eye (IPL 2) telecasted these matches. But still I did not see any advertisement on these channels about IPL 2010. Anyway this time all the matches of IPL will be broadcasted live on YouTube Official Channel for IPL 2010. This is done according to an agreement between IPL and Google (who owns YouTube). Though neither of them has revealed the conditions of the agreement it is believed that IPL and Google will share the revenues from advertisements and sponsorships. Anyway let’s hope that at least the telecast on YouTube is not interrupted by advertisements.
Most of the teams have same squads as last year but there are some new players in action as well. Hope this time Sri Lankan players will make their mark at IPL. Sanga has been given a chance to show his leadership skills this time.Also hope that Dilshan may play well and score a hundred this season. The Sri Lankan all rounder’s Thissara Perera and Angelo Mathews will be playing for CSK and KKR respectively. And hope that Sanath will play some wonderful innings at least to get some more votes :P
To watch IPL on YouTube use the below link.
To visit IPL official page

Here is the official IPL schedule.

No. Date IST Match Details Venue
Mar-2010
1 March 12 20:00 DC vs KKR HCA – Hyderabad
2 March 13 16:00 MI vs RR Mumbai/Nagpur
3 March 13 20:00 KXI vs DD PCA – Mohali
4 March 14 16:00 CSK vs DCMAC – Chennai
5 March 14 20:00 KKR vs BRC Eden – Kolkata
6 March 15 20:00 RR vs DD SMS – Jaipur
7 March 16 16:00BRC vs KXI MCS – Bangalore
8 March 16 20:00 KKR vs CSK Eden – Kolkata
9 March 17 20:00 DD vs MI FSK – Delhi
10 March 18 20:00 BRC vs RR MCS – Bangalore
11 March 19 20:00 DC vs KXI Visakhapatnam
12 March 20 16:00 RR vs KKR Ahmedabad
13 March 20 20:00 MI vs BRC Mumbai/Nagpur
14 March 21 16:00 CSK vs KXI MAC – Chennai
15 March 21 20:00DD vs DC FSK – Delhi
16 March 22 20:00MI vs KKR Mumbai/Nagpur
17 March 23 20:00BRC vs CSK MCS – Bangalore
18 March 24 20:00 KXI vs RR PCA – Mohali
19 March 25 20:00 KKR vs DD Eden – Kolkata
20 March 26 16:00 CSK vs MI MAC – Chennai
21 March 26 20:00 RR vs DC Ahmedabad
22 March 27 16:00 BRC vs DD MCS – Bangalore
23 March 27 20:00 KXI vs KKR PCA – Mohali
24 March 28 16:00RR vs CSK Ahmedabad
25 March 28 20:00 DC vs MI Visakhapatnam
26 March 29 20:00 DD vs KKR FSK – Delhi
27 March 30 20:00 MI vs KXI Mumbai/Nagpur
28 March 31 16:00 CSK vs BRC MAC – Chennai
29 March 31 20:00 DDs vs RR FSK – Delhi
Apr-2010
30 April 01 20:00 KKR vs DC Eden – Kolkata
31 April 02 20:00 KXI vs BRC PCA – Mohali
32 April 03 16:00 CSK vs RR MAC – Chennai
33 April 03 20:00 MI vs DC Mumbai/Nagpur
34 April 04 16:00 DD vs BRC FSK – Delhi
35 April 04 20:00 KKR vs KXI Eden – Kolkata
36 April 05 20:00 DC vs RR HCA – Hyderabad
37 April 06 20:00 MI vs CSK Mumbai/Nagpur
38 April 07 20:00 RR vs KXI Ahmedabad
39 April 08 16:00 BRC vs DC MCS – Bangalore
40 April 08 20:00 CSK vs DD MAC – Chennai
41 April 09 20:00KXI vs MI PCA – Mohali
42 April 10 16:00 BRC vs KKR MCS – Bangalore
43 April 10 20:00 Dc vs CSK HCA – Hyderabad
44 April 11 16:00 RR vs MI SMS – Jaipur
45 April 11 20:00 DD vs KXI FSK – Delhi
46 April 12 20:00 DC vs BRC HCA – Hyderabad
47 April 13 20:00 CSK vs KKR MAC – Chennai
48 April 14 20:00 MI vs DD Mumbai/Nagpur
49 April 15 16:00 RR vs BRC SMS – Jaipur
50 April 15 20:00 KXI vs DC Dharmasala
51 April 16 20:00 DD vs CSK FSK – Delhi
52 April 17 16:00 BRC vs MI MCS – Bangalore
53 April 17 20:00 KKR vs RR Eden – Kolkata
54 April 18 16:00DC vs DD HCA – Hyderabad
55 April 18 20:00 KXI vs CSK Dharmasala
56 April 19 20:00 KKR vs MI Eden – Kolkata
57 April 21 20:00 1nd Semi– T1 vs T 2 TBC
58 April 22 20:00 2nd Semi– T3 vs T4 TBC
59 April 24 20:00 3rd Place TBC
60 April 25 20:00 Final TBC

(At last i posted the article before i have to change "tomorrow" in the topic to "today" :) )