The player auction for the 2012 IPL will be held on February 4, the governing council has announced. The players from the Kochi Tuskers Kerala franchise, which was terminated earlier this year, will be part of the auction. The auction will be held in Bangalore and will be telecast live by SET MAX channel.

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DLF IPL Auction 2012 Live, on saturday , February 4 at 10:45 AM on MAXChannel India.

In the player auction of IPL T20 each team can spend $2 million in the event meant for players not picked up in last year’s auction. The exceptions are Bangalore and Pune, which have already spent some money retaining their respective ‘replacements’, Chris Gayle and Sourav Ganguly.

As many as 144 players, including Indian Test batsman VVS Laxman, pacer S Sreesanth and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, will go under the hammer when the players auction for the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League is held in Bangalore on February 4.

We are likely to see all the celebrity team owners at the IPL auction venue and would be a good tusel to see how main players are retained and how more costly players are bought.

The Kochi Tusker players are a good bunch and would be a interesting auction to watch for. With the current mood of cricket fans being down after thrashing from Australia, IPL should be a good bait to get back the cricket frenzy mood for all Indian cricket fans.

Pakistan players are not going to be a part of the IPL auction and all of them are going to miss the season 5 of IPL T20 to be held in India in the year 2012.

The auction will be conducted by Richard Madley, a professional auctioneer from England who has conducted each of the previous IPL player auctions. The proceedings will be broadcast live by IPL Indian broadcaster Sony Set Max. The opening match of IPL 2012 will take place on 4 April 2012 in Chennai. The IPL Auction will be held in the Mysore Hall, Royal Gardenia Hotel, Bengaluru, on 4 February 2012. Proceedings will commence at 11:00 am sharp.

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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) DLF IPL T20 5 2012  Match Schedule & Fixture, Time Table

The dates for year 2012 were recently announced by BCCI

The season five – 2012-  of the Indian Premier League (IPL), comprising nine teams and 76 matches, will begin and end in Chennai, with the opening match on April 4 and the final on May 27. The teams will play each other at home and away during a league phase consisting of 72 games at 12, possibly 13, venues, beginning with the defending champions Chennai Super Kings playing Champions League T20 winners Mumbai Indians.

The Pune Warriors franchise will host eight games at the new stadium in Pune, subject to its completion. In 2011, Pune had to stage their ‘home’ games at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. Dharamsala and Visakhapatman will also host two games each, and Cuttack is listed as an alternate venue to Hyderabad for two matches.

The first Qualifier, which will be contested by the top two teams in the league, and the Eliminator, contested by Nos. 3 and 4, will be held in Bangalore. Chennai will host the second Qualifier, which will be played between the winner of the Eliminator and the loser of the first Qualifier, and the tournament final.

The tournament is scheduled to begin 12 days after the Asia Cup final and a week after the end of South Africa’s tour of New Zealand. At present there are three international series that will clash with the 2012 IPL and could affect player availability for both the franchises and the countries. Sri Lanka are hosting England in April, while West Indies host Australia and then travel to England in May.

The next player auction for the IPL is scheduled for February 4. Stay tuned for more information

Next year 2012, the nine teams in the fray will play 16 matches each. According to sources of Times of India, this means each team is now going to play eight home games. There will also be an additional four play-off matches which will take the total tally of games in the tournament to 76.

The tournament is scheduled to be played from April 4 to May 27. With the play-off matches to be held in Bangalore and Chennai.

Meanwhile, the governing council of the IPL has decided to increase the numbers of players allowed in each squad. From the existing number of 30, IPL teams can go up to 33 players per squad. There will also be 11 foreign players instead of 10.

Importantly, the 2012 auction will be held in January and each team will get a purse of $2 million. The trading window will be operational from December 15, 2011 to January 20, 2012. Also, it has been decided no uncapped player will be paid more than Rs 30 lakh.

This year the Pune team – Pune Warriors – will most likely have their own home ground in Gahunje near Pune.

It is likely that the IPL teams would be auctioned in 2012 to accomodate all the players. Await further for details related to IPL T20 the season 5 of Indian Premier League.

 

		MP	W	L	NR	RR	P
	Delhi	10	8	2	0	+0.36	16
	Chennai	10	6	3	1	+1.22	13
	Hyderabad	11	6	5	0	+0.29	12
	Mumbai	11	5	5	1	+0.54	11
	Rajasthan	11	5	5	1	-0.37	11
	Bangalore	11	5	6	0	-0.36	10
	Punjab	11	5	6	0	-0.56	10
	Kolkata	11	1	9	1	-1.04	3

 

As the IPL T20 comes to the end of “cricket FULL”  3 weeks , a few teams are gearing up for the semi final position. The best 4 teams will battle out in the IPL T20 season 2 , 2009 semi finals. The first Semi Final  - Semi Final 1 –  is scheduled on 22-May-09 at  Pretoria  Match Begins 20:00 IST | 16:30 SA | 14:30 GMT and the Second Semi Final - Semi Final 2 -  is scheduled on 23-May-09 at  Johannesburg Match Begins 20:00 IST | 16:30 SA | 14:30 GMT

		MP	W	L	NR	RR	P
	Chennai	9	5	3	1	+1.28	11
	Rajasthan	9	5	3	1	-0.50	11
	Delhi	7	5	2	0	+0.16	10
	Hyderabad	8	5	3	0	+0.15	10
	Bangalore	9	4	5	0	-0.40	8
	Punjab	9	4	5	0	-0.52	8
	Mumbai	8	3	4	1	+0.52	7
	Kolkata	9	1	7	1	-1.10	3

Matthew Hayden (Chennai) 

• Matches: 8
• Runs: 378
• Balls: 237

• SR: 159.49
• Avg: 47.25
• HS: 89

Orange Cap Standings

Rudra Pratap Singh (Hyderabad) 

• Matches: 8
• Avg: 12.73
• SR: 11.8

• Wickets: 15
• Econ: 6.43

Purple Cap Standings

The IPL Team standings and points earned by each match as on May 1st 2009. This source has been taken from The IPL official website www.iplt20.com 

MP	W	L	NR	RR	P
	Hyderabad	5	4	1	0	+0.923	8
	Delhi	5	4	1	0	+0.318	8
	Punjab	5	3	2	0	+0.239	6
	Mumbai	5	2	2	1	+1.200	5
	Chennai	6	2	3	1	+0.943	5
	Rajasthan	6	2	3	1	-1.270	5
	Bangalore	6	2	4	0	-0.452	4
	Kolkata	6	1	4	1	-1.606	3

The IPLT20 team points and team standings for the season 2 in South Africa. Still the competition is tough to guess who will win the IPL and who will remain at the top in IPL. All teams are fighting hard and its a tough competition between the best teams and the best cricketers in the world. As the game proceeds we will get to know the Best batsmen in IPL and best bowler in IPL along with the Best team in IPL.

Cricinfo is one of the best place for cricket updates. Though the website is not that user friendly or easy to navigate, it serves the purpose by giving the latest scores online. Any cricket fan can follow the scores across the cricketing world from a single window and also gives a easy facility to keep a track of the forth coming cricket matches and cricket results. The website gives cricket updates of variety of cricket games like ICC World Cup Qualifiers, Indian Premier League, County Cricket, Current and Future cricket Tours, Match/series archive etc.

As far as IPL is concerned they have launched a mini portal at http://tinyurl.com/df29zg . Through this mini portal they have tried to bring the sime liveliness as we feel while watching the games. It has interesting features like live chat with Cricinfo editors Sambit Bal and Dileep Premachandran , or the mischief gal feature where it focuses on – Diary of a cheerleader. The section is very well managed by Rebecca Lee. She is a Part of the team of Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Mischief Gals cheerleader squad for the second season of the IPL in South Africa.  Rebecca Lee has performed with and instructed for one of the largest cheer and dance companies in the world, Varsity Spirit Corporation and Universal Cheerleaders Association, for seven years. Her insight and live blogging updates will be one of the good features to watch for on cricinfo. 

So in short www.cricinfo.com should be a good place to browse around during the IPL. Also if you are looking for live cricket scores from google search , simple go to google and search for [cricket] and you will immediately see a summary of the current cricket matches scores. Below is what I got after a live google search for [cricket]

Australia vs. South Africa, 5th ODI
	Aus 190/2(30.4) | RR: 6.20 Ponting* 19(29), Ferguson 40(31) Last 2 Overs: 2 . 4 1 1 1 | 1 1 . 1  www.cricbuzz.com Cricbuzz Cricinfo Willow