Indian Premier League , IPL 3 is scheduled to begin from  March 12 to April 25 2010 .

The 60-game tournament will feature a third-place playoff between the losing semi-finalists as a qualifier for the Champions League and could also see the induction of ICL players.

Nagpur, Visakhapatnam, Ahmedabad and Dharamsala are the new venues,

Hyderabad will host the opening Match between champions Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders, while both semi-finals will be held in Bangalore.

The venue of the final hasn’t been fixed but the season will end five days before the World Twenty20 opens in West Indies.

There is good news for the former ICL players

They will be valued in two categories; Indian domestic players will be paid Rs 8-20 lakh ($18,000-45,000) while international players, both Indian and foreign, will be made available through auction.

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