Top bowlers for Royal Challengers

S.No	Player	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	NB	Wd	RPO
1	Zaheer Khan	28	0	212	12	0	2	7.6
2	Praveen Kumar	27	1	207	8	0	2	7.7
3	Jack Kallis	23	0	22	4	0	3	9.6
4	B Akhil	7	0	51	2	0	0	7.3
5	Dale Steyn	16	0	105	1	1	7	6.7
6	Sunil Joshi	9.1	0	82	1	0	0	9.0
7	A Noffke	4	0	40	1	0	1	10.0

 

 

Top bowlers for Daredevils

S.No	Player	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	NB	Wd	RPO
1	Glenn McGrath	24	2	148	7	0	1	6.2
2	R Bhatia	13	0	96	6	0	2	7.4
3	Yo Mahesh	10	0	150	6	4	0	7.5
4	Mohammad Asif	20	0	180	6	1	4	9.0
5	Fervez Maharoof	11	0	78	4	0	2	7.1
6	Daniel Vettori	8	0	54	2	0	0	6.8
7	Shoaib Malik	6.3	0	57	2	1	3	9.0
8	Virendra Sehwag	5	0	53	2	0	0	10.6
9	P Sangwan	8	0	61	1	1	2	7.6
10	B Geeves	4	0	41	0	0	0	10.3

 

 

Top bowlers for Kings XI Punjab

S.No	Player	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	NB	Wd	RPO
1	Irfan Pathan	27.2	1	174	12	0	10	6.4
2	S Sreesanth	24.1	0	203	8	4	8	8.4
3	VRV Singh	20	0	167	6	0	3	8.4
4	Piyush Chawla	20	0	160	8	0	3	8.0
5	Brett Lee	16	1	112	3	3	0	7.0
6	Gagandeep Singh	8	0	80	2	0	0	10.0
7	James Hopes	11	0	121	2	0	1	11.0
8	Yuvraj Singh	2	0	11	1	0	1	5.5
9	WA Mota	3	0	36	1	0	2	12.0
10	K Goel	2	0	25	0	0	0	12.5

 

 

Top bowlers for Knight Riders

S.No	Player	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	NB	Wd	RPO
1	Ajit Agarkar	20	0	158	8	1	8	7.9
2	A Dinda	20	0	118	5	2	7	5.9
3	Umar Gul	8	0	58	5	2	3	7.3
4	Ishant Sharma	20.4	1	139	4	3	5	6.8
5	Murali Kartik	9.4	0	74	3	0	1	7.9
6	Mohammad Hafeez	10	0	68	2	1	3	6.8
7	Saurav Ganguly	7	0	49	2	0	1	7.0
8	David Hussey	9	0	98	2	0	1	10.9
9	Laxmi Ratan Shukla	5.1	0	57	2	1	2	11.2
10	R Vinay Kumar	4	0	41	0	0	0	10.3

 

 

Top bowlers for Rajastan Royals

S.No	Player	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	NB	Wd	RPO
1	Sohail Tanvir	12	1	75	8	0	3	6.3
2	Shane Warne	19	1	154	8	0	1	8.1
3	Shane Watson	23.1	1	163	7	2	7	7.1
4	Munaf Patel	22	0	181	5	0	2	8.2
5	S Trivedi	20	0	171	5	1	7	8.6
6	Yusuf Pathan	10.1	0	84	2	0	1	8.3
7	D Salunkhe	4	0	41	1	0	3	10.3
8	P Singh	3	0	26	0	0	0	8.7

 

 

10 Things IPL sponsors want to happen in a match

1. A wicket
2. 3rd Umpire decision pending on a run-out/line decisions.
3. A batsman or a fielder injured
4. Last ball of the over.
5. A player having an argument with the umpire.
6. Broken stump.
7. A Black out. I haven’t seen this until yesterday.
8. Fireworks creating a debris on the ground and groundstaff called up to clean.
9. Ball needs to be replaced (This is rare in 20-20 format but still sponsors would love it).
10. Ball lost.
11. Broken bat. (that’s actually 11 but this just happened in the Rajastan Royals match)

Why? So that they can play their advertisements one more time and bore the audience. The also know that you wont be flipping the channel because you dont want to miss a ball (especially if Yuvraj Singh is batting). Their motto is you can miss a ball but you cannot miss an ad.

Now, what they don’t want is a wicket to fall on the last ball of the over.

 

Top 10 reasons why IPL will work

1. It involves Cricket. Its a religion.
2. It involves Bollywood.
3. It involves money. A lot of it.
4. It involves Reliance Industries (their touch is golden).
5. It involves savvy entrepreneurs/ business houses who never miss a business opportunity. (GMR, Deccan, India Cements, DLF)
6. It takes only 3 hours of people’s time.
7. It is bound to get a result unlike test cricket. (Bowl out is gripping).
8. It involves australians and pakistanis. Both are known for bringing their own flavor to the game.
9. It involves cheerleaders. Indians are starved. Its a new phenomenon and they will like it.
10. It involves SRK. In India SRK and Sex sell. IPL has both (kind of).

A recent survey shows that following 3 C’s are the most covered on Indian television:

1. Crime
2. Cinema 
3. Cricket

IPL has the later two. What more can we ask for.

Top 10 money makers of IPL

 

Not including BCCI in this list is deliberate. Because, I really do not know how much do they really make.

  

Ranking	Player Name	Team	Amount	Description
1	MS Dhoni	Chennai	$1,500,000	Highest paid player in the team
2	Andrew Symonds	Hyderabad	$1,350,000	Highest paid player in the team
3	Sachin Tendulkar	Mumbai	$1,121,250	Icon Player for Mumbai
4	Sourav Ganguly	Kolkata	$1,092,500	Icon Player for Kolkata
5	Yuvraj Singh	Mohali	$1,063,750	Icon Player for Mohali
6	Rahul Dravid	Bangalore	$1,035,000	Icon Player for Bangalore
7	Sanath Jayasuriya	Mumbai	$975,000	Highest paid player in the team
8	Ishant Sharma	Kolkata	$950,000	Highest paid player in the team
9	Irfan Pathan	Mohali	$925,000	Highest paid player in the team
10	Jacques Kallis	Bangalore	$900,000	Highest paid player in the team

Icon player receives 15% more than the highest bid player in the team. Which means :

1. Sachin should thank Sanath
2. Sourav should thank Ishant Sharma
3. Yuvraj should thank Irfan Pathan
4. Rahul should thank Jacques Kallis.

The two teams which did not feature in this top 10 list are Jaipur and Delhi.

Top bid for Delhi is Gautam Gambhir  for $725,000. Which means Virendra Sehwag gets  $797, 000.Top bid for Jaipur is Mohammad Kaif for $675, 000. There is no Icon player for Jaipur.

SRk, Mallya, Preity Zinta did not feature in this list because they are bleeding money right now and yet to make money. Mallya starts his minting machine tomorrow.