Indian premier league how does it work

Law 6 - The Bat 7. Law 7 - The Pitch 8. Law 8 - The Wickets 9. Law 10 - Preparation and Maintenance of the Playing Area Law 11 - Covering the Pitch Law 12 - Innings Law 13 - The Follow-on Law 14 - Declaration and Forfeiture Law 15 - Intervals Law 16 - Start of Play; Cessation of Play Law 17 - Practice on the Field Law 18 - Scoring Runs Law 19 - Boundaries Law 20 - Lost Ball Law 21 - The Result Law 22 - The Over Law 23 - Dead Ball Law 24 - No Ball Law 25 - Wide Ball Law 26 - Bye and Leg Bye Law 27 - Appeals During a recent trip to Mumbai at the end of last year, two of the authors met over breakfast to share their experiences in the legal world.

CB, a judge in the District Judiciary of West Bengal, India and Daniel, a sports lawyer in London, were both brought together by their love of sport and in particular football. In the months that followed, the authors began collaborating on a variety of projects with joint articles on the contrasting characteristics of Indian and European sports. In contrasting the approaches taken from the various stakeholders, the authors share their views and experiences and the different approaches taken by the relevant rights holders in organising and monetising two such iconic sporting leagues.

The aim of this piece is to compare and contrast the different approaches taken by the IPL and the EPL, with a particular focus on how their competitions are set up, how broadcasting rights help fund the central distributions to the teams, how the teams commercialise their own rights, team valuations, cost control and player transfers.

IPL: Every year eight IPL franchise teams play in a round-robin format where each side plays each other twice in home-away fixtures. At the conclusion of the league stage, the top four teams qualify for the playoffs, which takes the form of a knock out tournament.

EPL: The EPL is played in a league season format between August and May each year, where each of the 20 teams plays each other twice also in home-away fixtures.

At the end of the season, the team with the highest number of points wins the title and the three teams with the fewest points are relegated to the Championship. The key difference between the league structures is that relegation and promotion does not occur in the IPL franchise model.

This means that the same eight teams compete in the IPL year after year. This contrasts with the EPL where three teams are relegated each season and three new teams are promoted from the Championship to take their place. IPL: Both the IPL and the EPL provide monies to their member clubs through revenue sharing central distributions, a significant proportion of which come from lucrative broadcasting deals.

Who are the top cricketers involved? Almost everyone who's anyone in world cricket, from current stars to recently retired all-time greats. Pakistan's players missed out after the first edition, while Australia's top current players Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting opted out in order to focus on the international game. Who are the franchise owners - celebrities and others? Shilpa Shetty, another popular Bollywood star, joined the Rajasthan Royals franchise after the first season. India Cements owns the Chennai-based franchise, while the Hyderabad-based Deccan Chargers franchise is owned by the Deccan Chronicle group.

In , two new franchises were added to the IPL family. How are the players paired with teams? The first player auction, on February 20 , had franchises bid for a maximum of eight international players from a pool of A similar, truncated process was followed in , with 17 players picked.

How did the player auctions pan out? Law 21 - The Result. Law 22 - The Over. Law 23 - Dead Ball. Law 24 - No Ball. Law 25 - Wide Ball. Law 26 - Bye and Leg Bye. Law 27 - Appeals. Law 28 - The Wicket is Down. Law 29 - Batsman out of His Ground. Law 30 - Bowled. Law 31 - Timed Out. Law 32 - Caught. Law 33 - Handled the Ball.

Law 34 - Hit the Ball Twice. Law 35 - Hit Wicket. Law 36 - Leg Before Wicket. Law 37 - Obstructing the Field. Law 38 - Run Out. Law 39 - Stumped. Law 40 - The Wicket-Keeper. Law 41 - Fielder. Law 42 - Fair and Unfair Play. See clause Note also clause If the captain persists in the action the IPL Match Referee shall award the match in accordance with clause