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The 2016 season of the
Indian Premier League, abbreviated as
IPL 9 or
VIVO IPL 2016, is the ninth season of the
IPL, a professional
Twenty20 cricket league established by the
Board of Control for
Cricket in India (
BCCI) in
2007. The tournament is being played between
9 April and 29 May 2016. The season has two new franchises, the
Gujarat Lions and the
Rising Pune Supergiants based in the cities of
Rajkot and
Pune respectively. These teams replaced the
Chennai Super Kings and the
Rajasthan Royals, both of which have been suspended for two years up to the 2017 season.
The schedule for the season was announced on 10
March 2016. In all there will be 60 matches played across different venues in
India, including 56 league stage matches and four play-off matches.
The 2016 season will be the first IPL season to use
LED stumps. The number of IPL fan parks, which was 16 during the
2015 season, will be increased to 36 (including one fan park in
New Jersey)
On 14 July 2015, the RM Lodha committee suspended the owners of the Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals franchises for a period of two years on charges of spot-fixing and betting during the
2013 IPL season. This meant that the two teams could not play in the 2016 and 2017 IPL seasons. The Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed that two new teams will replace them for the next two seasons of the IPL.
In
October 2015, PepsiCo withdrew as the title sponsor of the IPL, terminating a five-year deal which was to end in 2017.
Chinese smartphone manufacturer
Vivo Electronics was awarded the title sponsorship for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
In
November 2015, the BCCI shortlisted nine cities for the new franchises to be based in, leaving out
Jaipur (home of Rajasthan Royals) and
Kochi (home of the now defunct
Kochi Tuskers Kerala) for unknown reasons. The nine cities shortlisted were:
Chennai,
Cuttack,
Dharamsala,
Indore,
Nagpur, Pune, Rajkot,
Ranchi and
Visakhapatnam.
The new franchises were allocated using a reverse auction process, with companies which bid the lowest share of the central revenue pool becoming the owners of the new teams. On
3 December, it was reported that twelve companies collected tender documents for the bidding process.
On
8 December 2015, it was announced that
New Rising, a company led by
Sanjiv Goenka, and
Intex Technologies had won the bidding rights to the two new teams. New Rising decided to have their team based in Pune while
Intex chose Rajkot as the home of its team. The two franchises picked five players each from the squads of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals at a player draft on
15 December 2015. Each franchise was allocated a purse of 660 million to buy the players for their squad at the draft and players auction.
On 6
April 2016, amid a severe drought situation in the state of
Maharashtra, in which three venues (
Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur) were supposed to host a total of 20 IPL matches in the 2016 season, the
Bombay High Court questioned the "criminal wastage" of water being supplied to the three stadiums in a response to a petition from the
Lok Satta Movement NGO.[10] The drought has been described as one of the "worst-ever droughts" to effect the state[8] and is believed to be one of the worst droughts in
100 years.[11] An estimated 6 million litres (6 million litres)[11] of water were to be used at the three venues to maintain the pitches, with 4 million litres being used at the
Wankhede Stadium, the site of eight matches.[
10][12]
The High Court filed a public interest litigation
and suggested shifting matches to "some other state where water is in abundance." The High Court questioned the BCCI about whether "people are more important or your IPL matches".[12] The BCCI argued that the water being used at the venues was tanker water and not drinkable.
On 8 April, the
Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis declared that potable water will not be supplied to the venues and added "even if IPL matches are shifted, we have no problem."[9] On 9 April, hours before the season's opening match, the
Mumbai Cricket Association claimed that the water being used at the Wankhede Stadium was bought from private operators and not
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.[13]
On 13 April, the Bombay High Court ruled that all the matches to be held in the state in May must be moved to venues outside of Maharashtra. A total of 13 matches were scheduled to be hosted by the three venues in Maharashtra in the month of May, including two playoff matches in Pune and the final in Mumbai.[11][14][15] The court later allowed a match scheduled for 1 May to take place in Pune due to logistical difficulties with moving the fixture.
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