IPL 2011 schedule: 74 games to be played, four players to be retained
The schedule of IPL 2011 may not have been announced but the IPL Governing Council has come out with the news that the fourth edition of the IPL will have 74 matches and IPL 4 will start from April 7, 2011.
According to the IPL Governing Council, the IPL 4 schedule will be announced at a later date, but for now, the ten teams will be divided into two groups of five each. Apart from the IPL 2011 schedule, the player retention and IPL auctions were also announced
Earlier, the buzz was that the IPL 4 in 2011 will have 94 games, but with the pressure coming from the players and everywhere else about the increase in the fatigue and stress, the governing council has come out with this decision.
The player auction will be held in the second week of November, whereas the spending income for every team has been increased from $ 7 million to $ 9 million.
It was also announced by the IPL Governing Council the franchises would be able to retain four players in the squad while the rest of the players will go in the auction. Out of these four, three can be Indians whereas one will be a foreigner.
The format for IPL 4 is like this:
The ten teams are divided into two groups of five each. All five teams play in a home and away format to play eight games within their group. They also play one match against four teams from the other group and two games from the one other team in the other group. This will mean that all teams will play 14 games in the league stage.
The top two teams out of the ten teams will then qualify for the first semi-final, say match X. The winner of this match X will enter the final. The third and the fourth placed team will play another knock-out game Y – a quarter-final. The losing team from this game will be knocked out, whereas the winning team in the game Y will play the losing team of game X in the second semi-final. The winner of this match will take on the winner of game X in the final.
Example of the format of IPL 4 is as follows:
Say Mumbai, Delhi, Punjab, Kolkata finish top four after the league stage; as 1, 2, 3 and 4. Mumbai will then play Delhi in the first semi-final, and the winner, say, Mumbai will enter the final. Delhi will then play the winner of the Punjab-Kolkata game. Say Punjab beat Kolkata. That means that Delhi will play Kolkata and the winner of this Delhi-Kolkata game will play in the final.
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Posted by Sam
on Sep 5 2010. Filed under Cricket News.
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