The second season of the Indian Premier League will go ahead in South Africa after the lukewarm interest shown by the England & Wales Cricket Board in staging the tournament was rejected by organizers.
Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, said that the decision had been motivated by the enthusiasm of the South African public for Twenty20 cricket, as well as the success of the World Twenty20 there in 2007.
Following Modi’s verdict there are bound to be questions asked over whether the ECB should have been more proactive in trying to attract the high-profile competition, which has been moved out of India on security grounds.
On Sunday morning, Modi had suggested that England were the front-running candidates as stand-in hosts. But both the chairman and the chief executive of the ECB, Giles Clarke and David Collier were out of the country at that point.
By the time they returned home, Cricket South Africa chief executive Gerald Majola was already on the point of concluding the deal with Modi.
“We would like to thank Cricket South Africa very much for the support they have given us over the past few days, which has helped us to come to this decision," said Modi in a statement.
"The South African public loves T2O cricket and CSA successfully hosted the inaugural ICC World T20.
"Both these factors weighed heavily in South Africa's favour, and we look forward to a successful and exciting tournament being held at venues throughout South Africa."
While the full programme of 59 matches will be retained, the competition’s start date will move back from April 10 to April 18. The venues will include Johannesburg, Durban, Centurion, Port Elizabeth, East London and Cape Town.
Earlier on Tuesday, Clarke told reporters that the ECB had drawn up a possible schedule – based around the fact that, as he put it, “in any given week there are usually eight county grounds in action and 10 free”.
But Clarke also stressed that the ECB had not gone out of their way to attract the IPL. "The most important thing was not where the tournament is staged, but that is should be a success," he said. "If they want to stage it in South Africa, it’s their tournament. I do not regard this as a competitive situation.
“It would be fantastic to hold it here. The ethnic communities would respond extremely strongly to it, and there’s no doubt that a lot of people would come and watch. But we’re not banging down anyone’s door. They’ve got a whole host of things to consider about what they want.”
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| Player | Team | Amount | Base price |
| Nathan Bracken | Bangalore | $3,25,000 | $2,25,000 |
| RP Singh | Hyderabad | $8,75,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Murali Kartik | Kolkata | $4,25,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Makhaya Ntini | Chennai | $2,00,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Lasith Malinga | Mumbai | $3,50,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Chaminda Vaas | Hyderabad | $2,00,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Ramesh Powar | Mohali | $1,70,000 | $1,50,000 |
| Umar Gul | Kolkata | $1,50,000 | $1,50,000 |
| Dale Steyn | Bangalore | $3,25,000 | $1,50,000 |
| Dilhara Fernando | Mumbai | $1,50,000 | $1,50,000 |
| Ishant Sharma | Kolkata | $9.50,000 | $1,50,000 |
| Piyush Chawla | Mohali | $4,00,000 | $1,25,000 |
| Munaf Patel | Jaipur | $2,75,000 | $1,00,000 |
| Nuwan Zoysa | Hyderabad | $1,10,000 | $1,00,000 |
| Gautam Gambhir | Delhi | $7,25,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Robin Uthappa | Mumbai | $8,00,000 | $2,00,000 |
| VVS Laxman | Hyderabad | $3,75,000 | $1,50,000 |
| Wasim Jaffer | Bangalore | $1,50,000 | $1,50,000 |
| Rohit Sharma | Hyderabad | $7,50,000 | $1,50,000 |
| Mohammad Kaif | Jaipur | $6,75,000 | $1,25,000 |
| Suresh Raina | Chennai | $6,50,000 | $1,25,000 |
| Manoj Tiwary | Delhi | $6,75,000 | $1,00,000 |
| Chamara Silva | Hyderabad | $1,00,000 | $1,00,000 |
| David Hussey | Kolkata | $6,25,000 | $1,25,000 |
| Albie Morkel | Chennai | $6,75,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Ajit Agarkar | Kolkata | $3,50,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Shaun Pollock | Mumbai | $5,50,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Irfan Pathan | Mohali | $9,25,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Scott Styris | Hyderabad | $1,75,000 | $1,75,000 |
| Farveez Maharoof | Delhi | $2,25,000 | $1,50,000 |
| Tillekeratne Dilshan | Delhi | $2,50,000 | $1,50,000 |
| Cameron White | Bangalore | $5,00,000 | $1,00,000 |
| Yusuf Pathan | Jaipur | $4,75,000 | $1,00,000 |
| Joginder Sharma | Chennai | $2,25,000 | $1,00,000 |
| Dinesh Karthik | Delhi | $5,25,000 | $2,00,000 |
| AB de Villiers | Delhi | $3,00,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Mark Boucher | Bangalore | $4,50,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Parthiv Patel | Chennai | $3,25,000 | $1,50,000 |
| Kamran Akmal | Jaipur | $1,50,000 | $1,50,000 |
| Ricky Ponting | Kolkata | $4,00,000 | $3,25,000 |
| Brett Lee | Mohali, | $9,00,000 | $3,00,000 |
| Andrew Symonds | Hyderabad | $1.35 million | $2,50,000 |
| Daniel Vettori | Delhi | $6,25,000 | |
| Matthew Hayden | Chennai | $3,75,000 | |
| Brendon McCullum | Kolkata | $7,00,000 | $1,75,000 |
| Jacob Oram | Chennai | $6,75,000 | $2,00,000 |
| Shane Warne | Jaipur | $4,50,000 | $4,50,000 |
| MS Dhoni | Chennai | $1.50 million | $4,00,000 |
| Adam Gilchrist | Hyderabad | $7,00,000 | $3,00,000 |
| Mahela Jayawardene | Mohali | $4,75,000 | $2,50,000) |
| Muttiah Muralitharan | Chennai | $6,00,000 | $2,50,000 |
| Shoaib Akhtar | Kolkata | $4,25,000 | $2,50,000 |
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