IPL 2011: Are you ready for IPL 4?

With all the hoopla surrounding Indian cricket after becoming world champs, the stage is set for Indian Premier League season 4. IPL as seen in the previous years has been amongst the most entertaining cricket events of the year. IPL 4 kicks off tomorrow with the defending champions Chennai Super Kings taking on the star studded Kolkata Knight Riders 8 PM IST. The match will be played on Chennai’s home turf and according to sources there will be a grand opening ceremony to the event. Shah Rukh Khan is expected to dance to the tunes in the opening ceremony which will surely set the stage on fire.

The biggest news in this season’s IPL is the reshuffling of players which will surely have some people confused. So, the next time you see the former Delhi Daredevils captain wearing a Kolkata Knight Riders jersey don’t be surprised because he has been paid a whopping amount to play for KKR. Secondly, there has been an addition of two new teams, Sahara Pune Warriors and Kochi Tuskers which is sure to spice up the contest even further.

Another change in this year’s IPL edition is that the number of matches that are reduced from 94 to 73. All ten teams are divided into two groups of 5 teams each and all of them will play 4 league matches against each other and two more against the fifth team which will be chosen randomly. IPL4 is set to define the future of Indian Premier League as many think that cricket has been overdone while others think that adding new teams and re-shuffling the players will add more spice to this curry.

It’s only been a week since the world cup got over and since then the Indian team has been showered with gifts. There is a huge high after the world cup and people surely want to see Dhoni, Sachin, Sehwag and for that matter the world champs back in action. Though, it will be difficult for people to adjust their sentiments after the world cup win but the event promises to be a cracker.

While some players will be playing to enhance their resume just after the world cup win while others will be playing to seek a comeback into the national team. Players like Ishant Sharma, Irfan Pathan and Robin Uthappa have already stated that they want to use IPL as a stepping stone to enter into the national team.

The IPL has always been an unpredictable tournament which certainly makes it one of the most exciting events of the year. This season kicks off 8 PM in the evening tomorrow and the TRP’s are expected to soar higher than ever before.

IPL merchandise of your favourite teams, exclusively on eBay India

eBay India ( www.eBay.in ) in association with the Hot Muggs (brand owned by Rajesh Metal Industries) offer avid cricket fans a chance to own exquisite merchandise of their favourite Indian Premier League teams: Kings XI Punjab and Chennai Super Kings. This would be an opportunity for enthusiastic cricket buffs to choose from a wide range of merchandise that include Lassi Glasses, Mugs, Badges and Autographed Collectors' Merchandise . This official merchandise would be available on eBay India from April 29 , 2008 all throughout the duration of the IPL series.

Rajesh Metal Industries has entered into a licensing rights agreement with 'Kings XI Punjab' and 'Chennai Super Kings' to produce select merchandise and market them under the Hot Muggs brand name in retail stores along with an exclusive online partnership with eBay India.

Ms. Deepa Thomas, Senior Manager- Pop Culture, eBay India said, "We are delighted to partner with Hot Muggs to power the sale of these exquisite IPL merchandise as part of eBay's attempt to cater to the wide interests of its online shoppers. We are sure true cricket fans will be thrilled to buy and own the merchandise at great prices."

Mr. Rishi Jain, Managing Director – Rajesh Metal Industries, said, "Our partnership with eBay India is another strong step in the direction of shaping the L&M (licensing and merchandising) division of the company, and creating our impression on the still nascent merchandise market in India ."

Some interesting merchandise that would be sold on eBay India :

Interesting badges for Kings XI Punjab with your favourite stars and motivating slogans embossed in an array of colours at

Rs. 49 and Rs. 125 respectively.

Punjab Kings XI Born to Win Mug

Wanna sip your cup of coffee while ogling at your favorite cricketers. This bright red coffee mug features some of the star players of Kings XI Punjab like Yuvraj Singh (captain), Brett Lee, Irfan Pathan and Sreesanth.

Price: Rs. 250

Punjab Kings XI Lassi Da Gilass

They say to get a feel of the Real taste of Punjab you need to have the world famous Punjabi lassi. A really cool lassi glass with interesting graffiti scribbled on it which shows the cool attitude of the team.

Price: Rs. 99

Chennai Super Kings I Rule Mug

Super Kings is not just about royalty, but about absolute monarchy.
Take your own sip from this mug that represents the same fire in the belly – combining authoritarian black along with energetic vibrancy

Price: Rs. 300

Chennai Super Kings Fearless Warrior Mug

The Lords of the Pitch… the Chennai Super Kings…. Fearless Warriors… Dhoni, Muralitharan and Hayden come alive on this mug – donning the garb of Kings of ancient dynasties and replicating the exploits of their ancestors.

Price: Rs. 250

So log on to www.ebay.in to own the official merchandise and tune into the IPL buzz.

About Hot Muggs:

Hot Muggs is present in nearly 45 cities through leading malls, multiplexes and bookstores where the merchandise shall also be available. Hot Muggs plans to promote the merchandise through a multi-channel promotion campaign with emphasis on Below the Line activities and Contact programmes with the end customer. The company has been involved in merchandising with companies like Yash Raj Films for movie "Fanaa" and Balki's "Cheeni Kum" starring Amitabh Bachchan.

About eBay India

eBay India ( www.ebay.in ) is India 's leading online marketplace. It is a unique and exciting marketplace with the largest person-to-person trading community in the country. eBay India is a trading platform offering auctions, fixed price and classifieds modes of person-to-person trading. eBay India has 2 million registered users from 670 cities in India . eBay India (formerly Baazee.com) is a 100% subsidiary of eBay Inc. The popular categories on eBay India include technology, lifestyle, media and collectibles. Thousands of sellers sell on eBay India daily across 2,000 categories of products.

About eBay

Founded in 1995, eBay created a powerful platform for the sale of goods and services by a passionate community of individuals and businesses. On any given day, there are millions of items across thousands of categories for sale on eBay. eBay enables trade on a local, national and international basis with customized sites in markets around the world. Through an array of services, such as its payment solution provider PayPal, eBay is enabling global eCommerce for an ever-growing online community.

IPL 2011: Was IPL 4 auction rigged???

INDIAN PREMIER League, the brand in the making for the first 2 years, one which brought about the commercial side of cricket in India, now stands; once again I may add, amidst controversies and fall outs. This time around it is the Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, who is at the epicentre of this fiasco, N.Sreenivasan. Interestingly, before I started writing this piece. I wanted to know more about this guy and so I searched and found that Wikipedia describes him as
"an Indian industrialist, chemical engineer, sports administrator and socialite who is the Managing-Director of the India Cements Limited and owner of the Chennai Super Kings Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team. He is also currently the Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India."

Now, the first four cognomens does showcase the versatility of the person which has to be well respected but the last four keys does ring some bells. The wrong bells of course. IPL auctions being rigged is not a new thing, last year also these allegations were there about Lalit Modi favouring certain teams and this time around there is a certain team, who might have benefited owing to N.Sreenivasan.
Now the hard news is that Mumbai Indians think that auctions were rigged and a special someone, who knew about the auction inside out sat in the auction with a particular team, clearly helping them out. Well they are running around the bush for sure, but most of us know that the reference is for Chennai Super Kings. And from his Wikipedia bio hardly any doubt is left.

Honestly, even I was perplexed on how well CSK were performing in the auctions, what ever they wanted, they got it, and their bidding was bang on. But these all probably my perception and N.Sreenivasan and CSK are just the cream of the issue.

Issue is most definitely an over used word and why not, IPL does tend to have a lot of issues. Capped players, uncapped players and what not .Again as I further read on about the issue, ....aah I should use some other word next time around, well anyway, A column by Sharda Urga fascinated me, in that column she stated how rules of uncapped players were bend at the last moment and it also clearly indicated the big honchos in the fray. Interestingly that big honcho was Mumbai Indians, who had proposed that uncapped players be retained rather than going for the auction but it did not happen.

What happened was the uncapped players could be racked up just like that. A sort of internal matter, meaning that if an uncapped or capped players were of that high demand some extra "perks' might be added to lure them in to any particular franchise. Not a fair play right??? And moreover who the hell decides these rules.

Well one of those rule makers might be the name mentioned earlier.

ESPN ad rates soar to 20 lakh per 10 seconds for India-Pakistan semifinal

If you think it was only the tickets for India-Pakistan semi-final match which were getting sold for more than one lakh, then probably you are wrong. Even the advertisers are ready to shell out moolah just to get a ten second ad spot during the India-Pakistan semi final match.

Media experts feel that India Pakistan semi final match is biggest marketing opportunity on the planet and it will attract crores of eyeballs. No GEC or IPL can provide that viewership. So the advertisers can’t let it go. Even on the online platform the match will register record number of online streaming.

Subhrangshu Neogi of Religare, one of the on air advertisers in the cricket world cup told BestMediaInfo.com, “One of the biggest advantages with advertising on ESPN for the world cup is that its not cluttered as an IPL environment. The brand gets good visibility. That’s not in the case of IPL or any other event. We are not sponsors but we have cherry picked some matches and fortunately it has worked for us as India and Pakistan are clashing in the semifinal.”

ESPN is charging over Rs.20 lakh per 10 seconds for the last minute ad inventory and advertisers are even to ready to pay the amount as they know that never in coming years they’ll get a bigger marketing opportunity than the India-Pakistan semi-final world cup match .

The rates ranged from Rs 4-5 lakh for 10-second spots before the start of the tournament to Rs 10-11 lakh when it was clear that India will play Australia in the quarter final.

IPL 2011 Schedule Fixtures Matches Dates

IPL 2011 Schedule  – Indian Premier League

IPL 2011 Dates – IPL 4 to begin six days after ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

IPL 2011 Schedule – IPL 4 to begin on April 8 and conclude on May 22. Defending IPL champions the Chennai Super Kings will take on Kolkata Knight Riders in the first match of the IPL 4 on April 08, 2011.

The governing body also released the schedule of the IPL 2011 with changes in the play off system for the fourth edition of the game.

IPL 4 will see 10 teams and the governing body released provisional schedule of the games and the opening match will be at MA Chidambaram Stadium Chennai which will see the champions go to defend with the Kolkata Knight Riders on April 8, 2011. It is also their right to host the first match of the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League.

According to the tentative schedule, the 10 teams which include the two additions of franchises the Kochi and the Sahara Pune Warriors will play in all 74 matches and at 13 venues. The 74 matches are spread across 51 days and to reach the finals the final four teams of the IPL 4 will have to play in a new play-off system which will be coming into effect from the 2011 season. IPL 2011 Fixtures are placed below.

IPL 2011 Schedule

IPL 2011 Schedule – Indian Cricket Match Timetable 2011 is placed below. Chennai play Kolkata in opening match of IPL-4‎.

Date	Time	Teams	Venue
April 8	8 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders	Chennai
April 9	4 PM IST	Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royals	Hyderabad
April 9	8 PM IST	Kochi v Royal Challengers Bangalore	Kochi
April 10	4 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians	Delhi
April 10	8 PM IST	Pune Warriors vs Kings XI Punjab	Navi Mumbai
April 11	8 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders vs Deccan Chargers	Kolkata
April 12	4 PM IST	Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils	Jaipur
April 12	8 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians	Bangalore
April 13	4 PM IST	Pune Warriors vs Kochi	Navi Mumbai
April 13	8 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings	Mohali
April 14	8 PM IST	Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore	Hyderabad
April 15	4 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Kochi	Mumbai
April 15	8 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders	Delhi
April 16	4 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore	Chennai
April 16	8 PM IST	Deccan Chargers v Kings XI Punjab	Hyderabad
April 17	4 PM IST	Rajasthan v Kolkata Knight Riders	Jaipur
April 17	8 PM IST	Pune Warriors v Delhi Daredevils	Navi Mumbai
April 18	8 PM IST	Kochi v Chennai Super Kings	Kochi
April 19	4 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers	Delhi
April 19	8 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Rajasthan Royals	Bangalore
April 20	4 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Pune Warriors	Mumbai
April 20	8 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders v Kochi	Kolkata
April 21	8 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals	Mohali
April 22	8 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings	Mumbai
April 23	4 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders v Royal Challengers Bangalore	Kolkata
April 23	8 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab	Delhi
April 24	4 PM IST	Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians	Hyderabad
April 24	8 PM IST	Rajasthan Royals v Kochi	Jaipur
April 25	8 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings v Pune Warriors	Chennai
April 26	8 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils v Royal Challengers Bangalore	Delhi
April 27	4 PM IST	Pune Warriors v Chennai Super Kings	Navi Mumbai
April 27	8 PM IST	Kochi v Deccan Chargers	Kochi
April 28	4 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders v Kings XI Punjab	Kolkata
April 28	8 PM IST	Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians	Jaipur
April 29	8 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Pune	Bangalore
April 30	4 PM IST	Kochi v Delhi Daredevils	Kochi
April 30	8 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab	Mumbai
May 1	4 PM IST	Rajasthan Royals v Pune Warriors	Jaipur
May 1	8 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings v Deccan Chargers	Chennai
May 2	8 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils v Kochi	Delhi
May 3	8 PM IST	Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders	Hyderabad
May 4	4 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals	Chennai
May 4	8 PM IST	Pune Warriors v Mumbai Indians	Navi Mumbai
May 5	4 PM IST	Kochi v Kolkata Knight Riders	Kochi
May 5	8 PM IST	Deccan Chargers v Delhi Daredevils	Hyderabad
May 6	8 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kings XI Punjab	Bangalore
May 7	4 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings	Kolkata
May 7	8 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils	Mumbai
May 8	4 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kochi	Bangalore
May 8	8 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab v Pune Warriors	Mohali
May 9	8 PM IST	Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings	Jaipur
May 10	4 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians	Mohali
May 10	8 PM IST	Deccan Chargers v Pune Warriors	Hyderabad
May 11	8 PM IST	Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers Bangalore	Jaipur
May 12	8 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils	Chennai
May 13	8 PM IST	Kochi v Kings XI Punjab	Indore
May 14	4 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Deccan Chargers	Mumbai
May 14	8 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kolkata Knight Riders	Bangalore
May 15	4 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab v Delhi Daredevils	Dharamsala
May 15	8 PM IST	Kochi v Rajasthan Royals	Indore
May 16	8 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians	Kolkata
May 17	8 PM IST	Pune Warriors v Deccan Chargers	Pune
May 18	4 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab v Royal Challengers Bangalore	Dharamsala
May 18	8 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings v Kochi	Chennai
May 19	8 PM IST	Pune Warriors v Kolkata Knight Riders	Pune
May 20	8 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals	Mumbai
May 21	4 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab v Deccan Chargers	Dharamsala
May 21	8 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils v Pune Warriors	Delhi
May 22	4 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Chennai Super Kings	Bangalore
May 22	8 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals	Kolkata
May 24	8 PM IST	Qualifier 1	Mumbai
May 25	8 PM IST	Eliminator	Mumbai
May 27	8 PM IST	Qualifier 2	Chennai
May 28	8 PM IST	Final	Chennai

IPL 2011 – IPL season 4, Schedule, Auction, Teams, Players

The IPL or better sounded as Indian Premier League was a conventional approach by the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) in the year 2007. This form of league brought a revolution in Indian Cricket course and now it is extended to this year 2011. IPL season 4 or IPL 2011 has entered its domain this year with the auction of players from all around the globe.

IPL Season 4

India will be the host country for this IPL 4 this season. Chepauk Stadium located in Chennai, where the home side Chennai Super Kings conveyed the IPL Cup in 2010, will be the luckiest venue where the opening ceremony will be conducted. This year 2011 season will start from 8th April till 28th May, with full excitement all over the country. Indi Commandos Kerala and Pune Warriors are the 2 new squads introduces this year in IPL 4.

IPL 2011 Game Format

Total of 74 competitions will be viewed this season as there were 2 new teams introduced in IPL 2011. In the previous season there were 60 Matches and this season the number has drastically increased as the teams will play against each other in a dual Round-Robin format. The playoff is a new format initiated instead of Knockout. Super Over will be determining the winner incase of a tie.

There are 2 groups in which these 10 teams are divided. Each team from their respective group will play 14 games with a home and away match with each team in their group. After the group stages there will be playoff stage where we will see 4 games.

The points are divided in the following system, 2 points for winner and 1 divided among each other if there is no result between them.

The top 3 teams from playoff will succeed for the next 2011 Champions League Twenty20.

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IPL Teams 2011

30 Players has been included in each team with 9 million US dollar as a maximum to spend for the purchasing. The previous teams in the IPL 3 were dispersed as 2 new teams were included in this season. Each team had the capability to retain 4 players from their previous squad, with 3 Indian Players.

The entire franchises retained total of 12 players, where Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indian were the team to retain maximum of the players and Kolkata Knight Riders, Deccan Chargers and Kings XI Punjab released all.

IPL Players Auction

Under the auctioneer Richard Madley the auction was assumed at ITC Royal Gardenia in Bangalore on 8th and 9th January 2011. 350 players were placed in the auction and the reserved price set was fixed for all players for $20,000 – $400,000

On 22nd March 2010 2 new teams were auctioned from Kochi and Pune with a sum of Rs 3,235 crore ways above the very first auction on January 24th in 2008 for eight franchises (Rs 2,853 crore).

Due to unreported ownership amendments 2 teams Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals were provisionally ejected of IPL season 4.

Ipl 2011 Schedule

The robust IPL season 4 will be on move as soon the ICC Word Cup id finished. The action begins from the very first week of April (8th April) till 28th March with 10 teams. There will be 74 matches over 13 venues in 51 days.

IPL 2011 Tickets

There have been different distributors for IPL season 4 Tickets. The fans are already prepared themselves for the IPL and started their purchase with the tickets. KyaZoonga.com is the official website for IPL Tickets all over the nation. Bulk tickets are an option, where you can buy all the IPL Tickets for your favourite teams at their respective venues.

Now an IPL like Wrestling League from November 2011

NEW DELHI: Indian Wrestling League, an event on the lines of hugely successful IPL, will be launched later this year, the Wrestling Federation of India announced on Monday.

The WFI in collaboration with Kolkata based Leisure Sports will organise the League during November and December this year.

"Each team shall be named after the franchisee owner and will be permitted to have two foreign wrestlers in each style," G S Mander, President of the Wrestling Federation of India, said.

The League will be held in seven weight categories for both men and women. During the first year, there will be six city based teams competing in the league.

The bouts in the five-week long competition will be held at different venues on last three days of the week.

The wrestlers will obtain classification points after every bout and at the conclusion of the league, prize money will be awarded to the winning team and also to the Champion wrestlers.

IPL 2011 Schedule | IPL 4 Schedule

IPL 2011 Schedule for upcoming Indian Premier League Season 4 has been announced by BCCI. The tournament will be played just after days of Cricket World Cup tournament finish.  IPL T20 is one of the biggest event tournament of the sports world. It is played every year in the summer season of Indian Subcontinent. Remember this is just provisional schedule, pending approval from Election Commission of India because Tamil Nadu and West Bengal will be having State Elections in the same period.

Date
IST
Match Details
Venue

8-Apr-11
20:00
Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 1st IPL T20
Chennai

9-Apr-11
16:00
Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royals, 2nd IPL T20
Hyderabad

9-Apr-11
20:00
Team Kochi vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 3rd IPL T20
Kochi

10-Apr-11
16:00
Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians, 4th IPL T20
Delhi

10-Apr-11
20:00
Pune Warriors vs Kings XI Punjab, 5th IPL T20
Navi Mumbai

11-Apr-11
20:00
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Deccan Chargers, 6th IPL T20
Kolkata

12-Apr-11
16:00
Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils, 7th IPL T20
Jaipur

12-Apr-11
20:00
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians, 8th IPL T20
Bangalore

13-Apr-11
16:00
Pune Warriors vs Team Kochi, 9th IPL T20
Navi Mumbai

13-Apr-11
20:00
Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings, 10th IPL T20
Mohali

14-Apr-11
20:00
Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 11th IPL T20
Hyderabad

15-Apr-11
16:00
Mumbai Indians vs Team Kochi, 12th IPL T20
Mumbai

15-Apr-11
20:00
Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 13th IPL T20
Delhi

16-Apr-11
16:00
Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 14th IPL T20
Chennai

16-Apr-11
20:00
Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab, 15th IPL T20
Hyderabad

17-Apr-11
16:00
Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 16th IPL T20
Jaipur

17-Apr-11
20:00
Pune Warriors vs Delhi Daredevils, 17th IPL T20
Navi Mumbai

18-Apr-11
20:00
Team Kochi vs Chennai Super Kings, 18th IPL T20
Kochi

19-Apr-11
16:00
Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers, 19th IPL T20
Delhi

19-Apr-11
20:00
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals, 20th IPL T20
Bangalore

20-Apr-11
16:00
Mumbai Indians vs Pune Warriors, 21st IPL T20
Mumbai

20-Apr-11
20:00
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Team Kochi, 22nd IPL T20
Kolkata

21-Apr-11
20:00
Kings XI Punjab vs Rajasthan Royals, 23rd IPL T20
Mohali

22-Apr-11
20:00
Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings, 24th IPL T20
Mumbai

23-Apr-11
16:00
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 25th IPL T20
Kolkata

23-Apr-11
20:00
Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab, 26th IPL T20
Delhi

24-Apr-11
16:00
Deccan Chargers vs Mumbai Indians, 27th IPL T20
Hyderabad

24-Apr-11
20:00
Rajasthan Royals vs Team Kochi, 28th IPL T20
Jaipur

25-Apr-11
20:00
Chennai Super Kings vs Pune Warriors, 29th IPL T20
Chennai

26-Apr-11
20:00
Delhi Daredevils vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 30th IPL T20
Delhi

27-Apr-11
16:00
Pune Warriors vs Chennai Super Kings, 31st IPL T20
Navi Mumbai

27-Apr-11
20:00
Team Kochi vs Deccan Chargers, 32nd IPL T20
Kochi

28-Apr-11
16:00
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab, 33rd IPL T20
Kolkata

28-Apr-11
20:00
Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians, 34th IPL T20
Jaipur

29-Apr-11
20:00
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Pune Warriors, 35th IPL T20
Bangalore

30-Apr-11
16:00
Team Kochi vs Delhi Daredevils, 36th IPL T20
Kochi

30-Apr-11
20:00
Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab, 37th IPL T20
Mumbai

1-May-11
16:00
Rajasthan Royals vs Pune Warriors, 38th IPL T20
Jaipur

1-May-11
20:00
Chennai Super Kings vs Deccan Chargers, 39th IPL T20
Chennai

2-May-11
20:00
Delhi Daredevils vs Team Kochi, 40th IPL T20
Delhi

3-May-11
20:00
Deccan Chargers vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 41st IPL T20
Hyderabad

4-May-11
16:00
Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals, 42nd IPL T20
Chennai

4-May-11
20:00
Pune Warriors vs Mumbai Indians, 43rd IPL T20
Navi Mumbai

5-May-11
16:00
Team Kochi vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 44th IPL T20
Kochi

5-May-11
20:00
Deccan Chargers vs Delhi Daredevils, 45th IPL T20
Hyderabad

6-May-11
20:00
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kings XI Punjab, 46th IPL T20
Bangalore

7-May-11
16:00
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings, 47th IPL T20
Kolkata

7-May-11
20:00
Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils, 48th IPL T20
Mumbai

8-May-11
16:00
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Team Kochi, 49th IPL T20
Bangalore

8-May-11
20:00
Kings XI Punjab vs Pune Warriors, 50th IPL T20
Mohali

9-May-11
20:00
Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings, 51st IPL T20
Jaipur

10-May-11
16:00
Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians, 52nd IPL T20
Mohali

10-May-11
20:00
Deccan Chargers vs Pune Warriors, 53rd IPL T20
Hyderabad

11-May-11
20:00
Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 54th IPL T20
Jaipur

12-May-11
20:00
Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils, 55th IPL T20
Chennai

13-May-11
20:00
Team Kochi vs Kings XI Punjab, 56th IPL T20
Indore

14-May-11
16:00
Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Chargers, 57th IPL T20
Mumbai

14-May-11
20:00
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 58th IPL T20
Bangalore

15-May-11
16:00
Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Daredevils, 59th IPL T20
Dharamshala

15-May-11
20:00
Team Kochi vs Rajasthan Royals, 60th IPL T20
Indore

16-May-11
20:00
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians, 61st IPL T20
Kolkata

17-May-11
20:00
Pune Warriors vs Deccan Chargers, 62nd IPL T20
Pune

18-May-11
16:00
Kings XI Punjab vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 63rd IPL T20
Dharamshala

18-May-11
20:00
Chennai Super Kings vs Team Kochi, 64th IPL T20
Chennai

19-May-11
20:00
Pune Warriors vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 65th IPL T20
Pune

20-May-11
20:00
Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals, 66th IPL T20
Mumbai

21-May-11
16:00
Kings XI Punjab vs Deccan Chargers, 67th IPL T20
Dharamshala

21-May-11
20:00
Delhi Daredevils vs Pune Warriors, 68th IPL T20
Delhi

22-May-11
16:00
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings, 69th IPL T20
Bangalore

22-May-11
20:00
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals, 70th IPL T20
Kolkata

24-May-11
20:00
TBC vs TBC, Qualifier 1 IPL T20
Mumbai

25-May-11
20:00
TBC vs TBC, Eliminator IPL T20
Mumbai

27-May-11
20:00
TBC vs TBC, Qualifier 2 IPL T20
Chennai

28-May-11
20:00
TBC vs TBC, Final IPL T20
Chennai

IPL T20 Fans would miss the next generation CEO Lalit Modi being barred by IPL Committee this year. He was removed because of mismanagement of funds as well as back door participation in the IPL teams. He believed to have stack in Mohali, Kolkata and Rajasthan IPL Teams. The new chairman for IPL 2011 would be Chirayu Amin.

If we look at the IPL Highlights, performance of Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings was remarkable. Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings XI were the bottom teams who performed consistently low throughout the tournament. For IPL Scorecard refer IPL Live Score

IPL 2011 will constitute ten teams rather than alike earlier years eight teams. The new teams added this year are Sahara Pune Warriors and Kochi IPL. If the format of the IPL remain unchanged then the matches to be played will increase from 60 to 94. Lalit Modi tweeted on his account on April 14, 2010 – “We are going to start the 2011 IPL season a few days after the World Cup in the first week of April. We are going back to the schedule of April-May that we had in the 2008 first season. We will keep this (schedule) in future,”. Lalit Modi also mentioned that because of increase in teams and matches schedule will be of 51 days instead of regular 45 days IPL Schedule. Because of just after World Cup, there might be low interest in the IPL Tournament. Although critics hold that IPL 2012 would decide the future of the IPL.

Chirayu Amin – Chairman of Indian Premier League (IPL T20) told that 2011 year would be much more better and amazing the previous years. Although doubts rolls because of non presence of former Commissioner Lalit Modi.

The Broadcaster of IPL 2011 would be as follow

Winning Bidder
Regional Broadcast Rights

Sony/World Sport Group
India

ONE HD
Australia: Free-to-air HD and SD television. Owned by Network TEN.

Sky Network Television
New Zealand

PCCW
Hong Kong: Broadcast on Now Sports.

StarHub
Singapore: Broadcast on Cricket Extra.

Astro
Malaysia: Broadcast Astro Box Office Sport.

SuperSport
Central Africa, South Africa, Niger

Arab Digital Distribution
United Arab Emirates,  Bahrain,  Iraq,  Jordan,  Kuwait,  Lebanon,  Oman,  Qatar,  Palestine,  Saudi Arabia,  Syria,  Turkey,  Algeria,  Morocco,  Tunisia,  Egypt,  Sudan,  Libya,  Nigeria

GEO Super
Pakistan

Willow TV
Rights to distribute on television, radio, broadband and Internet, for the IPL in North America.

DirecTV
United States: Exclusive broadcast rights on CricketTicket.

Asian Television Network
Canada: Aired on Pay-per-view channel. Aired on XM Radio's ATN-Asian Radio as well.

SportsMax
Caribbean

ITV
United Kingdom: Broadcast on ITV4.

IPL 2011 Schedule and IPL Fixtures for Season 4 is yet to be announced. Once they are announced, we will post it here.

IPL T20 2011 Matches Schedule, Fixtures, Live Score

IPL 2011 Schedule – Indian Premier League. The schedule for the IPL 4 has been released and it will see Chennai host both, the first game and the final of the tournament. Chennai was the winner of the previous year’s tournament and hence have been awarded the right to do so.

The first game of the IPL 4 will be played at Chennai between the Super Kings and the Kolkata Knight Riders. The league part of the IPL will start from April 8 and will go on to be completed on May 22, with the top four teams making it to the play-offs.

In the play-offs, the top two teams will play against each other with the winning team entering the final. Then the number three and four placed teams will also play against each other with the loser getting eliminated from the tournament.

The winner of this game will then face the loser of that first game in the second qualifier and the winner will enter the finals to be played on May 28 at Chennai.

IPL 2011 Schedule

Date	Time	Teams	Venue
April 8	8 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders	Chennai
April 9	4 PM IST	Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royals	Hyderabad
April 9	8 PM IST	Kochi v Royal Challengers Bangalore	Kochi
April 10	4 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians	Delhi
April 10	8 PM IST	Pune Warriors vs Kings XI Punjab	Navi Mumbai
April 11	8 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders vs Deccan Chargers	Kolkata
April 12	4 PM IST	Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils	Jaipur
April 12	8 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians	Bangalore
April 13	4 PM IST	Pune Warriors vs Kochi	Navi Mumbai
April 13	8 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings	Mohali
April 14	8 PM IST	Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore	Hyderabad
April 15	4 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Kochi	Mumbai
April 15	8 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders	Delhi
April 16	4 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore	Chennai
April 16	8 PM IST	Deccan Chargers v Kings XI Punjab	Hyderabad
April 17	4 PM IST	Rajasthan v Kolkata Knight Riders	Jaipur
April 17	8 PM IST	Pune Warriors v Delhi Daredevils	Navi Mumbai
April 18	8 PM IST	Kochi v Chennai Super Kings	Kochi
April 19	4 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers	Delhi
April 19	8 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Rajasthan Royals	Bangalore
April 20	4 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Pune Warriors	Mumbai
April 20	8 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders v Kochi	Kolkata
April 21	8 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals	Mohali
April 22	8 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings	Mumbai
April 23	4 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders v Royal Challengers Bangalore	Kolkata
April 23	8 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab	Delhi
April 24	4 PM IST	Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians	Hyderabad
April 24	8 PM IST	Rajasthan Royals v Kochi	Jaipur
April 25	8 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings v Pune Warriors	Chennai
April 26	8 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils v Royal Challengers Bangalore	Delhi
April 27	4 PM IST	Pune Warriors v Chennai Super Kings	Navi Mumbai
April 27	8 PM IST	Kochi v Deccan Chargers	Kochi
April 28	4 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders v Kings XI Punjab	Kolkata
April 28	8 PM IST	Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians	Jaipur
April 29	8 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Pune	Bangalore
April 30	4 PM IST	Kochi v Delhi Daredevils	Kochi
April 30	8 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab	Mumbai
May 1	4 PM IST	Rajasthan Royals v Pune Warriors	Jaipur
May 1	8 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings v Deccan Chargers	Chennai
May 2	8 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils v Kochi	Delhi
May 3	8 PM IST	Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders	Hyderabad
May 4	4 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals	Chennai
May 4	8 PM IST	Pune Warriors v Mumbai Indians	Navi Mumbai
May 5	4 PM IST	Kochi v Kolkata Knight Riders	Kochi
May 5	8 PM IST	Deccan Chargers v Delhi Daredevils	Hyderabad
May 6	8 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kings XI Punjab	Bangalore
May 7	4 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings	Kolkata
May 7	8 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils	Mumbai
May 8	4 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kochi	Bangalore
May 8	8 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab v Pune Warriors	Mohali
May 9	8 PM IST	Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings	Jaipur
May 10	4 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians	Mohali
May 10	8 PM IST	Deccan Chargers v Pune Warriors	Hyderabad
May 11	8 PM IST	Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers Bangalore	Jaipur
May 12	8 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils	Chennai
May 13	8 PM IST	Kochi v Kings XI Punjab	Indore
May 14	4 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Deccan Chargers	Mumbai
May 14	8 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kolkata Knight Riders	Bangalore
May 15	4 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab v Delhi Daredevils	Dharamsala
May 15	8 PM IST	Kochi v Rajasthan Royals	Indore
May 16	8 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians	Kolkata
May 17	8 PM IST	Pune Warriors v Deccan Chargers	Pune
May 18	4 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab v Royal Challengers Bangalore	Dharamsala
May 18	8 PM IST	Chennai Super Kings v Kochi	Chennai
May 19	8 PM IST	Pune Warriors v Kolkata Knight Riders	Pune
May 20	8 PM IST	Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals	Mumbai
May 21	4 PM IST	Kings XI Punjab v Deccan Chargers	Dharamsala
May 21	8 PM IST	Delhi Daredevils v Pune Warriors	Delhi
May 22	4 PM IST	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Chennai Super Kings	Bangalore
May 22	8 PM IST	Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals	Kolkata
May 24	8 PM IST	Qualifier 1	Mumbai
May 25	8 PM IST	Eliminator	Mumbai
May 27	8 PM IST	Qualifier 2	Chennai
May 28	8 PM IST	Final	Chennai