IPL sura mpya ya Kriketi

18 Aprili 2008, iliashiria kuanza kwa IPL - Ligi Kuu ya India kwa michezo 20/20 ya kriketi. Mchezo wa kwanza ulizinduliwa na kung'ara na kung'ara kwa mpira wa miguu wa Amerika na wapiga debe na Sauti wote wamechanganywa kwenye jukwaa moja kutoa mwanzo mzuri wa ligi.

IPL ni wazo la Lalit Modi, makamu wa rais wa BCCI. Ligi hiyo inaonyeshwa katika safu ya mpira wa miguu huko Uropa, haswa Ligi Kuu ya Uingereza. Uwekezaji mkubwa umefanywa katika ligi hii na pesa kubwa hutolewa kwa wachezaji nyota kushiriki.

Mchezo wa kwanza ulikuwa kati ya Kolkata Knight Rider na Bangalore Royal Challengers na ulijumuisha rekodi ya rekodi ya kukimbia 158 katika kriketi ya 20/20 na Kiwi nyota Brendan McCullum, ambayo ilisababisha ushindi wa 223-3 kwa Kolkata Knight Rider kwa kukimbia 140.

Ligi hiyo imevutia umakini ulimwenguni haswa kutoka kwa kikundi cha wahusika wa kriketi na mashabiki kila mahali, kwa sababu ya utangazaji na umiliki maalum wa timu mbili kwenye ligi. Yaani Kolkata Knight Riders ambao wanamilikiwa na muigizaji wa Sauti Shahrukh Khan na anayemilikiwa mwenza na mwigizaji Juhi Chawla na mume Jai Mehta na Wafalme 11 Punjab ambao wanamilikiwa na mwigizaji wa Bollywwod Priety Zinta na anayemilikiwa na Ness Wadia (mjukuu mkubwa wa Mohd. Ali Jinnah - mwanzilishi wa Pakistan).

Ligi hiyo ina timu ambazo zimepitia minada ya wachezaji kusaini majina makubwa katika kriketi ya kimataifa. Hapa kuna orodha ya timu za IPL, makocha, wachezaji wao na nchi husika.

Wafalme XI Punjab

• Kocha: Tom Moody.
• Wachezaji: India - Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Tanmay Srivastava, Sahil Kukreja, Sunny Sohal, Ramesh Powar, Pankaj Dharmani, Nitin Saini na Wilkin Mota.
  Austrailia - Brett Lee, Luke Pomersbach, Simon Katich, James Hopes na Shaun Marsh.
  New Zealand - Kyle Mills.
  West Indies - Ramnaresh Sarwan.
  Sri Lanka - Mahela Jayawardene na Kumar Sangakkara.

Chaja za Deccan

• Kocha: Robin Singh.
• Wachezaji: India - VVS Laxman, RP Singh, Rohit Sharma, Venugopala Rao, Pragyan Ojha, Halhadar Das, Arjun Yadav, Paidikalva Vijay Kumar, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Kalyan Krishna, Sanjay Bangar na Sarveesh Kumar.
  Australia - Adam Gilchrist na Andrew Symonds.
  Sri Lanka - Chaminda Vaas, Chamara Silva na Nuwan Zoysa.
  Pakistan - Shahid Afridi.
  Afrika Kusini - Hershelle Gibbs.
  New Zealand - Scott Styris.

Challengers Royal ya Bangalore

• Kocha: Venkatesh Prasad.
• Wachezaji: India - Anil Kumble, Zaheer Khan, Wasim Jaffer, Praveen Kumar, Sunil Joshi, B Akhil, Vinay Kumar, Devraj Patil, Bharat Chipli, KP Appanna, B Arun Kumar, Virat Kohli na Sreevats Goswami.
  Afrika Kusini - Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher na Dale Steyn.
  Australia - Nathan Bracken na Cameron White.
  Pakistan - Misbah-ul Haq.
  New Zealand - Ross Taylor.
  West Indies - Shivnarine Chanderpaul.
  Bangladesh - Abdur Razzak (Bangladesh).

Washirika wa kifalme wa Rajasthan

• Kocha: Shane Warne.
• Wachezaji: India - Mohammad Kaif, Munaf Patel, Anoop Revandkar, Taruwar Kohli, Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Niraj Patel, Sumit Khatri, Pankaj Singh, Siddharth Trivedi na Swapnil Asnodkar.
  Austrailia - Shane Warne, Justin Langer, Shane Watson na Darren Lehmann.
  Pakistan - Younis Khan, Sohail Tanvir na Kamran Akmal.
  Afrika Kusini - Graeme Smith na Morne Morkel.
  Uingereza - Dimitri Mascarenhas.

Delhi huthubutu

• Kocha: Greg Shipperd.
• Wachezaji: India - Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rajat Bhatia, Shikhar Dhawan, Dinesh Karthik, Manoj Tiwary, Mithun Manhas, Mayank Tehlan, Yo Mahesh na Pradeep Sangwan.
  Australia - Glenn McGrath na Brett Geeves.
  Pakistan - Mohammad Asif na Shoaib Malik.
  Sri Lanka - Tillakaratne Dilshan, Farveez Maharoof.
  Afrika Kusini - AB de Villiers.
  New Zealand - Daniel Vettori.

Kolkata Knight Riders

• Kocha: John Buchanan.
• Wachezaji: India - Akash Chopra, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohan Banerjee, Yashpal Singh, Debabrata Das, Sourav Ganguly, Wriddhiman Saha, Brendon McCullum, Ajit Agarkar, Iqbal Abdulla, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ishant Sharma, Murali Kartik, Umar Gul, Umar Gul, Umar Gul, Umar Gul Ranadeb Bose na Sourashish Lahiri.
  Pakistan - Salman Butt na Mohammad Hafeez.
  Australia - David Hussey na Ricky Ponting.
  West Indies - Chris Gayle.
  Zimbabwe - Tatenda Taibu.

Wahindi wa Mumbai

• Kocha: LalchandRajput.
• Wachezaji: India - Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Robin Uthappa, Abhishek Nayar, Ajeenkya Rahane, Gaurav Dhiman, Ankeet Chauhan, Ashish Nehra, Pinal Shah, Dhaval Kulkarni, Manish Pandey, Musavir Khote, Rajesh Pawar, Rohan Raje, Saurabh Chitnis, Yogesh Takawale, Swapnil Singh na Vikrant Yelligeti.
  Sri Lanka - Sanath Jayasuriya, Dilhara Fernando na Lasith Malinga.
  Afrika Kusini - Shaun Pollock, Loots Bosman na Ashwell Prince.
  Australia - Luke Ronchi na Dominic Thornely.

Chennai Super Wafalme

• Kocha: Keppler Wessels.
• Wachezaji: India - Suresh Raina, S Badrinath, Parthiv Patel, Joginder Sharma, Lakshmipathi Balaji, Napolean Einstein, Abhinav Mukund, Sudeep Tyagi, Rashwin, Viraj Kadbe, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Anirudha Srikkanth, P Amarnath, Shadth Arun Sar Kumar Jakati.
  Australia - Matthew Hayden na Michael Hussey.
  New Zealand - Stephen Fleming na Jacob Oram.
  Afrika Kusini - Makhaya Ntini na Albie Morkel.
  Sri Lanka - Muttiah Muralitharan.

Kumekuwa na shida kwa wachezaji wa Kiingereza na Welsh ambao wamepewa kandarasi kuu kujiunga na ligi kuu hii. Bodi ya Kriketi ya Kiingereza (ECB) iliweka wazi kabisa kwamba hawatasaini Hati za Kukataa za wachezaji - sharti la kucheza katika IPL. Wakati majira ya ligi yalipingana na ziara ya England huko New Zealand na mashindano ya Mashindano ya Kaunti nchini Uingereza.

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