Information Madness

Indian Cricket is becoming more commercialise like western country games such as american football and basketball. The concept of Twenty 20 games is great where one doesn't have to sit for the whole day infront of a TV. Twenty 20 is like a baseball of USA. I love to watch T20 rather than One days.

BCCI invited global Franchise to bid for eight official team for IPL. And on January 24th, the results were declared. Here is the list of winning bidders for IPL teams. Reliance Pvt. Ltd owns the most expensive team Mumbai with $111.9 million. And the cheapest team was Jaipur for $67 million.  Vijay Malya (UB Group) lost Mumbai team to Reliance Pvt. Ltd for about 0.3 million.

 

Winning Bidder	City Franchise Won	Winning Bid Value
Reliance Pvt. Ltd	Mumbai	USD 111.9 Million
GMR Holdings	Delhi	USD 84 million
Shah Rukh Khan/Juhi Chawla/Jay Mehta	Kolkata	USD 75.09 million
Indian Cements Ltd	Chennai	USD 91 million
Vijay Malya's UB Group	Bangalore	USD 111.6 million (lost mumbai team by 0.3 million)
Preity Zinta/Ness Wadia/KaranPaul/Mohit Burman	Mohali	USD 76 million
Deccan Chronicle	Hyderabad	USD 107.01 million
Emerging Media	Jaipur	USD 67 million

So now its going to be fun watching all these Twenty 20 matches.