The grand finale of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 is to be held on 26 May after 73 matches. The final match is to be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad today i.e. on 26 May at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. The Hyderabad team is captained by Pat Cummins and the Kolkata team is led by Shreyas Iyer. But the question is the way foreign players come to India and play IPL matches. Do the players of the Indian team also go abroad and play in other leagues?
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The Indian Premier League (IPL) held in India is the most expensive T20 league in the world. Dozens of players from abroad come and play in the Indian Premier League. They get many benefits from this. Apart from this, they also get a lot of money for playing.
Let us tell you that apart from the Indian Premier League (IPL), dozens of cricket leagues are played all over the world including Bangladesh Premier League, South Africa T20 League, Lanka Premier League, Big Bash League, Caribbean Premier League, T20 Blast, The Hundred. But except IPL, Indian players do not play in any foreign league.
Why don’t Indian players play?
The question is why Indian players don’t go to play in other country’s leagues. Actually BCCI has banned Indian cricketers from playing in foreign leagues. The main reason for this is that the schedule of Indian cricketers is already busy. Indian players already have a lot of matches to play. According to former Indian players, Indian cricketers do not need to play in foreign leagues because a lot of cricket matches are played at domestic level in our country.
Who has won the IPL matches so far?
In the 2008 final held in Mumbai, Rajasthan Royals won the match. Chennai Super Kings became the runner-up.
In the 2009 final match held in Johannesburg, Deccan Chargers won the match. Royal Challengers Bangalore became the runner-up.
In the 2010 match held in Mumbai, Chennai Super Kings won the match. Mumbai Indians became the runner-up.
In the 2011 match held in Chennai, Chennai Super Kings again won the match. Royal Challengers Bangalore became runners-up.
In the 2012 final match held in Chennai, Kolkata Knight Riders won the match and Chennai Super Kings became runners-up.
In the 2013 final match held in Kolkata, Mumbai Indians won the trophy and Chennai Super Kings became runners-up.
In 2014 the final match was held in Bangalore. In which Kolkata Knight Riders won the trophy and Kings XI Punjab became runners-up.
In 2015 the final was held between Kolkata Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. In which Mumbai Indians won the final.
In 2016 the final match was held in Bangalore. In which Sunrisers Hyderabad won the match. Whereas Royal Challengers became runners-up.
In 2017 the final was held in Hyderabad between Mumbai Indians and Rising Pune Supergiants. In which Mumbai Indians won the match.
In the 2018 final held in Mumbai, the final was played between Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Mumbai Indians won the trophy.
In 2019 also Mumbai Indians won the match. At the same time Chennai Super Kings became the runner-up.
In 2020 again Mumbai Indians won the match and Delhi Capitals became the runner-up.
In 2021 the final match was held in Dubai. In which Chennai Super Kings won the match. At the same time Kolkata Knight Riders became the runner-up.
In 2022 Gujarat Titans won the match and Rajasthan Royals became the runner-up.
In the 2023 final match held in Ahmedabad, Chennai Super Kings won the match. Gujarat Titans was in second place.
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