Auctions for IPL Season 6 will be held at either Chennai or Kolkata, in January 2013. Some sources stated that most probably, auction will be held on 12th January at Chennai or on 20th January at Kolkata.
The decision to either include or exclude Pakistani players from the 2013 edition of Indian Premier League will be taken by the governing council at its next meeting before the player auction.
Update: The auction for the sixth edition of IPL will be held on February 3 in Chennai according to Sunder Raman, CEO of Indian Premier League. Raman on his official twitter account tweeted, “Pepsi IPL auction will be held on 3rd Feb in Chennai starting 11am IST.”
The long association of DLF with IPL ended as Soft drinks giant Pepsi bagged the title sponsorship for IPL for a whopping 396.8 crore rupees. Earlier DLF had paid 200 crores for five years (2008-2012).
Airtel was the other company which applied for the title sponsorship but Pepsi’s bid was more than that of Airtel and thus they were awarded the title sponsorship for five years (2013-2017)
“So far our records of selling various properties of IPL has been very good. We have doubled, tripled or quadrupled the amount while selling some of the properties,” Shukla told reporters after the meeting of the IPL Governing Council.
Deepika Warrier, Executive Director Marketing of Pepsico Beverages said “We have been associated with cricket for the last 20 years. The IPL is a tremendous product. It is a brand which rivals any other sporting brand across the world.”
Following are the players retained by IPL Teams for the sixth season of IPL, IPL 2013.
Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni, Murali Vijay, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati, Srikkanth Aniruddha, Subramaniam Badrinath, Suresh Raina, Wriddhaman Saha, Albie Morkel, Ben Hilfenhaus, Dwayne Bravo, Francois du Plessis, Michael Hussey, Nuwan Kulasekara.
Deccan Chargers is now IPL Hyderabad: Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Ashish Reddy, Bharat Chipli, Akash Bhandari, Akshath Reddy, Amit Mishra, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, Biplab Samantray, Dwarka Ravi Teja, Ishant Sharma, Parthiv Patel, Shikhar Dhawan, Cameron White, Chris Lynn, Dale Steyn, Jean Paul Duminy, Juan Theron, Kumar Sangakkara, Veer Pratap Singh,.
Delhi Daredevils: Ajit Agarkar, Irfan Pathan, Manpreet Juneja, Naman Ojha, Pawan Negi, Shabaz Nadeem, Umesh Yadav, Unmukt Chand, Varun Aaron, Virender Sehwag, Yogesh Nagar, Andre Russell, David Warner, Kevin Pietersen, Mahela Jayawardene, Morne Morkel, Roelof van der Merwe, Ross Taylor
Kings XI Punjab: Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, Gurkeerat Mann Singh, Harmeet Singh Bansal, Mandeep Singh, Nitin Saini, Parvinder Awana, Paul Valthaty, Piyush Chawla, Praveen Kumar, R Satish, Siddharth Chitnis, Sunny Singh, Adam Gilchrist, Azhar Mahmood, David Hussey, David Miller, Dimitri Mascharenhas, Shaun Marsh, Ryan Harrid
Kolkata Knight Riders: Debabrata Das, Gautam Gambhir, Iqbal Abdullah, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Manoj Tiwary, Manvinder Bisla, Pradeep Sangwan, Rajat Bhatia, Sarabjit Singh Ladda, Shami Ahmed, Yusuf Pathan, Brad Haddin, Brendon McCullum, Brett Lee, Eoin Morgan, Jacques Kallis, James Pattinson, Ryan ten Doeschate, Shakib al Hasan, Sunil Narine
Royal Challengers Bangalore : Abhimanyu Mithun, Arun Karthik, Vinay Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Harshal Patel, K P Appana, Karun Nair, Mayank Agarwal, S Aravind, Saurabh Tiwary, Syed Mohammad, Vijay Zol, Virat Kohli, Zaheer Khan, Chris Gayle, Daniel Vettori, AB de Villiers, Andrew McDonald, Muttiah Muralitharan, T Dilshan
PepsiCo will now be the official sponsor of IPL Season 6 after DLF did not renew their contract at the end of initial 5 years contract. PepsiCo has earned the sponsorship rights at a whopping Rs 396.8 crore for five years.
IPL Final 2012 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings
Match – 76 DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – May 27, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT |20:00 IST
Venue – MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Toss – Chennai Super Kings elected to bat
Result – Kolkata Knight Riders won by 5 wickets
Kolkata Knight Riders have created history today as they defeated defending champions CSK by 5 wickets in a thrilling encounter today.
Chennai Super Kings who won the toss and elected to bat first posted a good total of 190 thanks to superb batting by their batsmen specially Suresh Raina. Kolkata Knight Riders who got the first jolt when the team score was just 3 in the very first over, came back strongly thanks to M Bisla’s innings of 89 off 48 balls. J Kallis also supported him superbly and finally it was Manoj Tiwary which ended the match with two fours.
