Abhishek Tiwari, Monday 08th March 2010 
For the session 2011, Ahmedabad is to be expected one of the team in the Indian Premier League (IPL), for which its fate has got trapped in a fight between three corporate giants to acquire it. The triangle is formed by Adani group, Aditya Birla group and Dubai’s Emmar Properties, a leading real estate company.
The governing council of IPL has resolute to add two more teams in 2011 other than the previously held 8 teams, thereby; there will be 10 teams for the 2011 and beyond. The tussle to be IPL’s franchise is between Ahmedabad, Cuttack, Dharamasala, Gwalior, Indore, Kanpur, Kochi, Nagpur, Pune, Rajkot, Vadodra and Visakhapatnam. But the real fight is between Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Pune.
Till Thursday there was no sign of any contender for the Ahmedabad team in spite the bidding starting last Monday but surprisingly Friday was a relief as it showed seven bidders among which the aforementioned three bidders were at the forefront.
The base price for the two new IPL’s teams as set by government council is US $ 225 million. The winning bids for the novel teams will be opened on 7th March, 2011 in Mumbai after which they will get full access to prepare themselves for IPL.
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