About Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Super Kings, owned by India Cements, managed to get the prized services of Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the inaugural edition of IPL. Quite understandably, the Indian captain commanded the highest price at the player auctions - a whopping USD 1.5 million. Australia’s batting tour de force Matthew Hayden was roped in to give the batting a destructive edge - and he played his role to perfection in two successive seasons.

Stephen Fleming, who doubled as coach in the second season; the wily Muralidaran; batsman Suresh Raina; and all-rounder Albie Morkel helped Chennai reach the final. When the second round of auctions took place, Andrew Flintoff joined as one of the highest-paid players. In 2009, Hayden scored prolifically while his team entered the semi-final, only to be pipped at the post by RCB. Fleming has now been bought out by the side and is just the coach. At the 2010 auction, the team bought South African Justin Kemp, they also brought in Sri Lankan Thisara Perera for a sum of USD 50,000.

Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals Teams at Jaipur

2010 Indian Premier League points table leader Mumbai Indians will meet host Rajasthan Royals in the 45th match of IPL3 on Sunday, 11th April, 2010 at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur in a night game starting from 14:30 GMT, 8:00 PM IST.

Mumbai Indians is leading the table but their semi-finals berth is still not confirm as race for the last four is going tough as day passes and they will try to secure their position with a win after 2 back to back loss.

Rajasthan Royals on the other hand back in semis race after few hard fought win and they are ready to give more surprises as they are looking in similar form as first IPL and Shane Warne leading from the front and Watson, Lumb and Ojha doing well.

Mumbai Indians Playing 11, Team, Squad (Probables)

Sachin Tendulkar (capt), Keiron Pollard, Saurabh Tiwary, JP Duminy, Ambati Rayadu, Harbhajan Singh, Aditya Tare (wk), Zaheer Khan, Ryan McLaren, Dwayne Bravo, Lasith Malinga.

Rajasthan Royals Playing 11, Team, Squad (Likely)

Shane Warne (Capt), Michael Lumb, Shane Watson, Naman Ojha, Faiz Fazal, Yusuf Pathan, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Paras Dogra, Shaun Tait, Siddharth Trivedi, Sumit Narwal.

Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab , Teams at Kotla

2nd placed Delhi Daredevils and bottom team in points table Kings XI Punjab will meet in the 44th match of 2010 Indian Premier League - IPL3, first game of Sunday, 11th April, 2010 at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, New Delhi starting from 10:30 GMT, 4:00 PM IST.

Delhi Daredevils is trying to secure their place in the semi-finals as the race for the last four is going tough as the day passes. Delhi lost the last match and they will probably give chance to AB de Villiers or Dilshan in place of Warner.

Kings XI Punjab won the last game against leader MI and they will surely boosted by the win as they are now playing freely because they are out of the tournament. They can give chance to their bench strength.

Delhi Daredevils Playing Eleven Team, Squad (Likely)

Gautam Gambhir (Capt), Virendar Sehwag, David Warner, Paul Collingwood, Yo Mahesh, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Amit Mishra, Pradeep Sangwan, Daniel Vettori, Dirk Nannes.

Kings XI Punjab Playing 11, Team, Squad (Likely)

Kumar Sangakkara (Capt/wk), Shaun Marsh, Yuvraj Singh, Mahela Jayawardhane, Sunnu Sohal, Brett Lee, Irfan Pathan, S Sreesanth, Piyush Chawla, Romesh Pawar, Arwind Mota.

IPL 3 Prize Money

IPL - Indian Premier League, the other name of shower of money in the game of cricket for everyone. The beneficiery will not not only BCCI but players all around the world.

The overall prize money will be around Rs. 20 crore (US $5 million), with the winners taking home Rs. 8 crore ( US $2 million).

The remaining money will be up for grabs in different forms, like man of the match awards and cash prizes. By contrast, the winners of the 2007 ICC World Cup in the Caribbean took home Rs. 4 crore (US $1 million). The Indian team that won the World Twenty20 got half of that.

TV rights have already gone for over US $1 billion. Franchisees have already committed close to US $723 million. Top players are expected to earn minimum Rs. 4-6 crores per season.