A Quick guide to IPL

Welcome to the fifth season of IPL. 4 entertaining years later the league still manages to weave it's magic around this time of the year. The number of teams may have gone down but the excitement certainly hasn't. Not if you ask the broadcasters. Or the advertisers.

What about the viewers? No one asks the viewers! They are addicted to this adrenaline rush. How else do you explain them sitting through 3 hours of ads to watch 1 hour of cricket? That's why we aren't asking you what you need this IPL but we are giving you all you need.

Yes, whatever you need to know about IPL is right here! Right from the auction to the schedule to the match preview to the match report and what not. Your one stop shop for all things IPL. So go ahead browse through the tabs. Peruse the information at leisure. Or keep yourself up to date. And keep coming back for we will bring something new for you everytime.

Following are the 9 teams playing in this year's IPL. Click your team to know more about it and its players:

Team Name	Captain	Dark horses
Chennai Super Kings	MS Dhoni	Faf du Plessis, George Bailey
Deccan Chargers	K Sangakkara	Daniel Harris, Anand Rajan
Delhi Daredevils	V Sehwag	Aaron Finch, Irfan Pathan
Kings XI Punjab	A Gilchrist	David Miller , Azhar Mahmood
Kolkata Knight Riders	G Gambhir	Iqbal Abdulla, Sunil Narine
Mumbai Indians	Harbhajan Singh	Richard Levi, Mitchell Johnson
Pune Warriors India	S Ganguly	Tamim Iqbal, Rahul Sharma
Rajasthan Royals	R Dravid	Dinesh Chandimal, Kevon Cooper
Royal Challengers Bangalore	D Vettori	Sreenath Aravind, Arun Karthik