Indian Street Premier League:
The brand-new Indian Street Premier League, a T10 tournament played with the tennis ball, kicked off in all its glitz and glory on Wednesday in Thane. The league comprises of six franchises owned by actors of Indian cinema, with the legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar named as the brand ambassador and former India head coach Ravi Shastri named as the chief mentor of the tournament.

The Indian Street Premier League (ISPL) inaugural season has started from Wednesday (March 6).

Six teams are participating in the inaugural season of ISPL and the top four teams will qualify for the semifinals. The Final of the tournament will be played on March 15. The teams are - Chennai Singams, Bangalore Strikers, Falcon Risers Hyderabad, Tiigers of Kolkata, Srinagar Ke Veer and Majhi Mumbai.

Teams and Squad:

Tigers Of Kolkata Squad: Uzair Shaikh, Babbu Rana, Shivam Kamboj, Sagar Bhandary, R. Bala Chandran, Bhavesh Pawar, Jonty Sarkar, Munna Shaikh, Fardeen Kazi, Rajat Mundhe, Prathamesh Pawar, Pradeep Patil, Shivam Kumar, Pritpal Singh, Raju Mukhiya, Akhil Singh

Srinagar Ke Veer Squad: Lokesh Lokesh, Deepak Dogra, Ahmed Askari, Omkar Desai, Aishwary Surve, Pritam Bari, Rajesh Sorte, Bhushan Gole, Tanisk Naik, Mohammed Nadeem, Vineet Todkar, Sumesh B, Kavinram Ramashbabu, Rohit Yadav, Navneet Parihar, Aditya Babbar

Bangalore Strikers Squad: Saroj Paramanik, Ankur Singh, Bunty Patel, Bijal Rajput, Ashiq Ali Shamsu, Parv Lamba, Rahul Baghel, Prajjwal Somwanshi, Harishkumar KK, Mansoor KL, Ajit Mohite, Thomas Dias, Sunil Chawri, Akash Gautam, Kulwinder Singh, Sharik Yasir.

Falcon Risers Hyderabad Squad: C. Dhilip Ranjan, Ubaid Bashir, Irfan Patel, Furqan Khan, Varun Kumar, Vivek Manoharan, Prathamesh Thakre, Vishwajit Thakur, Jagat Sarkar, Krishna Satpute, Nitin Matunge, Shreyas Kadam, Anurag Sarshar, Anand Baghel, Yasar Arafath, Vicky Bhoir.

Chennai Singhams Squad: Harish Parmar, Vedant Mayekar, Dilip Binjwa, R. Thavith Kumar, V Vignesh, Bablu Patil, Vishwanath Jadhav, Sanjay Kanojjiya, Sagar Ali, Ketan Mhatre, Summet Dhekale, Pankay Patel, Farhat Ahmed, Farman Khan, Ankit Sanap, Rajdeep Jadeja.

Majhi Mumbai Squad: Ahmad Fayaz, Ravi Gupta, Abhishek Kumar, Vijay Pawle, Syed Salman, Ajaz Qureshi, Akshay Patil, Raviraj Ahire, Basharat Wani, Krusha Pawar, Murali A, Shreyas Indulkar, Ashraf Khan, Yogesh Penkar, Deepak Kumar Limboo, Devid Gogoi.

ISPL 2024: Rules and Regulations of Indian Street Premier League:
T10 Format
The tournament is being played in a T10 format, which means each team will be batting for 10 overs. This is a well-known format across the world.

Tip-Top Toss
The original coin toss is not the way to determine who will bat/bowl. Instead, the two captains will adopt the Tip-Top Toe format of Toss which is quite familiar with street cricket. In this case, the captains will be on their backs to each other and then go forward a certain distance. After that they will turn around and start moving towards each other with tiny Tip-Top steps.

As they come close to each other, the captain whose foot will touch the foot of his opposition number, will win the Toss.

Tennis Ball
In the tournament, Tennis Ball is used instead of a Deuce ball, which is generally used in cricket. Also, there will be two Tape-Ball overs per inning.

Powerplay Rule
The Powerplay Rule of the tournament gives three powerplay overs to each team. The first two overs of the inning are mandatory powerplay overs. The batting team can take the other powerplay over at any time in between the 3rd to 9th over of their innings.

50-50 Over
In the 50-50 over, the batting team challenges for a number of runs they would score in the next over. In this case, the batting team will also pick the bowler that they want. The minimum number of the challenge run is 16.

If the batting team achieves to accomplish the challenge, 50% of the runs that they scored in that over will be additionally added. (Example: A team challenges for 16 runs and they score 16 runs, in that case, 50% of 16, which is 8, will be added. Hence the team will accumulate 24 runs from that over).

If the batting team fail to accomplish the challenge, 50 % runs from that over which they scored will be deducted. (Example: If the batting team manage only 12 runs in their 16-run challenge over, 6 runs will be deducted from the batting team).

Tape Ball Over
Each bowling team will have to bowl two overs with Tape Balls in every inning. A Tape-Ball is nothing but a tape-covered Tennis Ball, but the original Tennis ball is used here instead of the hardened Tennis ball which is generally used in cricket. This ball generally swings a lot and is tricky to control. Tape-Ball Overs can't be used in a 50-50 over.

9 Street Runs
This is another unique rule of this tournament. If a batter hits a six and the ball goes over the fence to one of the audience stands, the batting team will be awarded 9 runs instead of Six Runs which is generally awarded in cricket.
Streaming Details:
Sony Ten 2 will live air the Indian Street Premier League 2024 matches in India.

Indian Street Premier League 2024 matches will be streamed live on Sony LIV.