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Indian Premier League, Season 3, is scheduled to begin from March but the competition among the teams have already started with the auction. The owners and officials of all the teams participated in the auction of IPL3, which started on January 19, 2010 in Mumbai. As most of the teams have retained their key players, there are speculations about the fate of new players who are up for auction this year.

4.15 pm: According to sources, West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard has become the most expensive player in the history of Indian Premier League with the Mumbai Indians shelling out a whopping $2.75 million for him after a four-way silent tie-breaker

The final fixtures and schedules of IPL 2010 has been announced. The first match will be held between defending champion Deccan Chargers and the defending looser – Kolkata Knight Riders. The IPL 2010 which is the 3rd season will start on 12th March and end on 25th April, 2010. Four new venues- Nagpur, Vishakapatnam, Ahmedabad and Dharamsala have been added apart from the 8 home venues of the teams. This time no new teams will be added but new players including the former ICL players will be available for auction for IPL 3.

It was supposed to be a meeting to clip Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi’s wings. Instead, the IPL’s governing council meeting on Thursday cemented Modi’s position as IPL supremo. Contrary to media speculation , Modi will continue to head IPL till 2012.

The decision to shift the second season of the Indian Premier League from its home base to either England or South Africa has further clipped the wings of the IPL czar Lalit Kumar Modi, the man with aspirations to rule the cricket world.

Almost half of the Victoria Bushranger players have already figured in the cash-awash Indian Premier League and the remaining youngsters are eyeing the Champions League T20 to impress upon the IPL teams to earn a lucrative contract.

Four new venues and a third place playoff match will be introduced in the third Indian Premier League (IPL) which will get underway in Hyderabad on 12 March 2010

After maintaining a tough stand for close to two years, the Cricket Board lifted the ban on players aligned with the rebel Indian Cricket League ICL by offering a surprise "amnesty" which will make them eligible to play for the country again after a cooling period of one year.

Indian diplomats here are making all out efforts to stop the auction of Mahatma Gandhi's personal items, even as community leaders and groups are working out strategies to buy them if the auction goes ahead on Thursday.After a high-level meeting with the top diplomats of the Indian Consulate today, the Antiquorum Auctioneers promised to convey their final decision tonight just before Mahatma's item are due to go on auction on Thursday.