Thursday, 3 September 2015

Karnataka Premier League

Karnataka Premier League (KPL) is an Indian Twenty20 cricket League established by Karnataka State Cricket Association in August 2009. The domestic cricket competition is modeled along the lines of the popular Indian Premier League. The sponsor of KPL is Bangalore based Real Estate Developer, Mantri Developers. They remained sponsor for five years just like DLF was for IPL.
This year the fourth season is taking place. The tournament is scheduled from 3rd September 2015 to 19th September 2015. Final of KPL will take place in Mysore. The last tournament was won by Mangalore United. Bangalore Provident (Rural) won the first season of the tournament. Large number of players was auctioned for the tournament. The tournament is a round robin format tournament where each team plays against each other and top four are advanced to the semi-finals.

Some of the players in Indian Cricket Team were part of KPL in 2014. Indian Opener KL Rahul was the top scorer with a century. KK Nair was also the part of KPL. MA Aggarwal, Vinay Kumar, and Manish Pandey have rich experience of playing in KPL. Vinay Kumar and Abhimanyu Mithun are Bowlers who had played for India. Final will held in Mysore on 19th September 2015, till than stay tuned.

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