Speculation is over. We finally know which four teams are going to play in the IPL semifinals.
Chennai Super Kings dashed the last hope of Mumbai to reach the IPL semifinals as they staked their claim on the last available IPL semifinal spot in the Indian Premier League after beating Deccan Chargers by seven wickets in their last IPL league match here today.
The Chennai team not only sealed a IPL semifinal place for themselves they also broke the heart of Sachin Tendulkar led Mumbai Indians team, which is now out of the IPL tournament.
Here is a brief profile of all the four IPL semifinalists and the Points Table of all the IPL Teams.
(Note: The odds given for the IPL teams were at the start of the tournament)
Name: Rajasthan Royals
Owner: Emerging Media
Ground: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Coach: Shane Warne
Captain: Shane Warne
Star player: Graeme Smith
Most expensive player: Mohammad Kaif, $675,000
Squad: Graeme Smith, Morne Morkel, (South Africa),
Justin Langer, Shane Watson, Shane Warne (Australia),
Younis Khan, Kamran Akmal, Sohail Tanvir (Pakistan),
Dimitri Mascarenhas (England),
Mohammad Kaif, Anoop Revandkar, Taruwar Kohli, Niraj Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Siddharth Trivedi, Swapnil Asnodkar, Sumit Khatri, Munaf Patel, Pankaj Singh (India).
Total cost: $3,610,000
Odds: 12/1
Name: King's XI, Punjab
Owner: Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Karan Paul and Mohit Burman
Ground: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali
Coach: Tom Moody
Captain: Yuvraj Singh
Star player: Brett Lee
Most expensive player: Yuvraj Singh, $1,063,750 (ICON PLAYER)
Squad: Simon Katich, Luke Pomersbach, Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh (Australia),
Kyle Mills (New Zealand),
Ramnaresh Sarwan (West Indies),
Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka),
Yuvraj Singh, Sree Santh, Piyush Chawla, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Tanmay Srivastava, Sahil Kukreja, Sunny Sohal, Irfan Pathan, Ramesh Powar, Pankaj Dharmani, Nitin Saini, Wilkin Mota (India).
Total cost: $6,503,750
Odds: 13/2
Owner: GMR Holdings
Ground: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Coach: Greg Shipperd
Captain: Virender Sehwag
Star player: Virender Sehwag
Most expensive player: Virender Sehwag, $833,750 (ICON PLAYER)
Squad: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Farveez Maharoof (Sri Lanka),
Daniel Vettori (New Zealand),
Glenn McGrath, Brett Geeves (Australia),
Mohammad Asif, Shoaib Malik (Pakistan),
AB de Villiers (South Africa),
Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Manoj Tiwary, Shikhar Dhawan, Dinesh Karthik, Rajat Bhatia, Mithun Manhas, Mayank Tehlan, Pradeep Sangwan, Yo Mahesh (India).
Total cost: $6,372,500
Odds: 7/1
Name: Chennai Super Kings
Owner: India Cements
Ground: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Coach: Keppler Wessels
Captain: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Star player: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Most expensive player: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, $1.5m
Squad: Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey (Australia),
Stephen Fleming, Jacob Oram (New Zealand),
Makhaya Ntini, Albie Morkel (South Africa),
Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka),
Suresh Raina, S Badrinath, Parthiv Patel, Joginder Sharma, Lakshmipathi Balaji, Napolean Einstein, Abhinav Mukund, Sudeep Tyagi, Rashwin, Viraj Kadbe, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Anirudha Srikkanth, P Amarnath, S Sresh Kumar, Arun Karthik and Shadab Jakati (India).
Total cost: $6,225,000
Odds: 10/3 favourites
| Team | Matches | Won | Lost | Points |
| IPL JAIPUR | 13 | 11 | 2 | 22 |
| IPL MOHALI | 13 | 9 | 4 | 18 |
| IPL | 14 | 7 | 6 | 15 |
| IPL CHENNAI | 13 | 7 | 6 | 14 |
| IPL KOLKATA | 14 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| IPL MUMBAI | 13 | 6 | 7 | 12 |
| IPL BANGLORE | 13 | 4 | 9 | 8 |
| IPL HYDRABAD | 13 | 2 | 11 | 4 |
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