Cricket is a sport. It is played between two teams of eleven players each who score runs (points) by running between two sets of three small, wooden posts called wickets. Around the pitch is a much larger oval of grass called the cricket ground.

The Indian Premier League (often abbreviated as IPL), is a Twenty20 cricket competition initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and supervised by BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi, Chairman & Commissioner for IPL. It presently includes 10 teams "franchises" consisting of players from different countries. It was the first sporting event ever to be broadcast live on the popular video sharing website Youtube.^[4][4] The Indian Premier League's brand value was estimated to be around $4.13 billion (over Rs 18,000 crore) in 2010.^[5][5][6] According to global sports salaries review IPL is the second highest-paid league (hypothetically though), based on first-team salaries on a pro-rata basis, only second to NBA league.