Expect Lalit Modi to have a strategy behind the announcement.
The IPL Chairman and Commissioner has stated that the new IPL franchisees will be announced on the 8th of March, 2010 before the IPL 3 gets underway. The bidding for the franchisees will become more specific by the 21st of February.
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The idea behind the timing, as Modi puts it, is to initiate the two new teams to enter the fray for the IPL 4 in 2011 is to get a feel for the functioning of the IPL through the IPL 3.
At present, there are twelve Indian cities vying to become a part of the IPL 4. These include: Vishakapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Cuttack (Orissa), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Nagpur (Mahrashtra), Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh), Rajkot, Vadodara (both in Gujarat), Dharmasala, Pune (Maharashtra), Kochi.
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