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Now, Lalit Modi wants two IPLs every year

By admin ⋅ May 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

With the Indian Premier League proving a smashing hit in its adopted home in South Africa, the organisers of the Twenty20 razzmatazz are mulling a second and shorter version of the event in the same calendar year at an overseas location. IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi told ‘The Daily Telegraph’ that the success of the second [...]

Bacher calls on ICC to create window for IPL

By admin ⋅ April 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Former South African cricket board chief Ali Bacher has urged the ICC to create a permanent window for the Indian Premier League in its calendar as the Twenty20 tournament has become the “number one event in world cricket”. “This is the number one sporting event at the moment in world cricket. I would like [...]

Concern over Twenty20’s corruption risk – ICC

By admin ⋅ April 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Twenty20 cricket poses a greater corruption threat than the traditional forms of the game, Haroon Lorgat, the ICC chief executive, has said

Indian prisoners protest against IPL TV ban

By admin ⋅ April 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s something that says Indian Premier League is so popular in India that even prisoners are going on a hunger strike to watch IPL matches. AFP reports that hundreds of inmates at a prison in Kolkata have gone on hunger strike after they were not allowed to watch Indian Premier League cricket matches, officials said [...]

Multi Screen to relaunch Sony riding on IPL effect

By admin ⋅ April 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In a bid to win back some of the ground that it has lost to competitors in recent years, broadcaster Multi Screen Media Pvt. Ltd will ride the popularity of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to relaunch Sony Entertainment Television (SET), its flagship Hindi entertainment channel. The second season of the successful twenty-over cricket league [...]

IPL emerging as India’s Super Bowl for advertisers

By admin ⋅ April 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Much like the Super Bowl—considered the most watched television property in the US with estimated advertising revenues of $186.3 million (Rs922 crore today) in 2008—season 2 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is being seen as a great platform to promote brands and launch new products.
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Pundits don’t mind ‘strategic breaks’

By admin ⋅ April 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

It used to be said, when Twenty20 was being touted for the first time in the country, that, its brevity made it preferable to Tests or One-Day Internationals. But these three-hour games, according to a cricket-specific website, “will now last three-and-a-quarter hours” in the Indian Premier League. And if rapid action was once said to [...]

IPL legal team to work on Pak players’ dues

By admin ⋅ April 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has asked its legal advisers to look into the demands of the Pakistani cricketers regarding their payment row with their respective franchise. Sources in the management company that is representing the players said that the IPL commissioner Lalit Modi had conveyed the matter of dues of the Pakistani players to [...]

IPL to produce fevered festivities for SA

By admin ⋅ April 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi promised on Wednesday a non-stop carnival atmosphere at this year’s tournament in South Africa. However, Modi insists South Africans can expect a continuous party with organisers looking to raise the bar in terms of festivities. “The entire IPL second season is going to be like a carnival”
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Travel bookings for IPL take off

By admin ⋅ April 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

With four days left for the Indian Premier League (IPL) to kick off, travel bookings for South Africa, which were initially slow, seem to have picked up. Bookings are largely being driven by corporate travellers, according to travel companies, even as tour operators lock horns to garner volumes through a price war.
The price war [...]

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