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Nothing Official About It!

Sunday, March 2, 2008 Labels: , 0 comments


There is this official website of Indian Premier League by BCCI. And when you have a official site for any tournament, you are bound to think that you will be getting all the info about the latest happenings of the tournament from that site. But here, you are in for a surprise as the latest information in this site is only of 15th Feb 2008, saying 'The Player Auction will be held on the 20th of February'. Auction of the players is already over but the official word about the same on the internet is yet to be spoken! With innumerable sites raking in moolah from the latest buzz in Indian sports, BCCI is yet to catch up on this field.

Apart from that, the official site is yet to sport the logo of the T20 tournament in its pages. Also, no information is available about the players of the 8 teams participating in the tournament. What is currently available is the list of players available for IPL before auction. Also there is the schedule of matches being played in the inaugural edition of the cup. The pdf file of the match schedule from this site, has been doing rounds in the techie circle through e-mails!

Well, BCCI could pull up its socks for making this official website truely official by giving it a more professional look with the latest information. Also it can toy up with the idea of having its own staff of official bloggers too. When the auction of IPL players was going on, the latest news was only available on cricinfo blogs. With less than 2 months to go for the tournament, BCCI has its task cut out and netizens would like to see the real official IPL site!

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Tickets for IPL matches

Monday, February 25, 2008 Labels: 0 comments


Watching IPL matches in stadium of duration 3 hours will as good as going to a movie. There is no need to dedicated a entire day, so one can expect a huge demand for tickets for the actual matches.

As per previous experience, standing in a queue at the stadium will be a tedious task. For IPL tickets BCCI had tied up with world-renowned ticket-sellers Ticketpro. Not only there will be online booking of tickets, but there will be booking through mobile phones as well.


Let's see how much this system will be transparent. With the amount of money involved in the league one can expect a lot nexus between franchise, sponsors etc. I have already heard many rumours that the minimum price of the ticket will be around 5000 INR.

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IPL: A right product at right time

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After Indian cricket team being crowned as champions of inaugural T20 world cup, there is a lot of enthusiasm to watch T20 cricket in India. To make revenue from this interest the Indian board BCCI has come up with a Indian Premier League, famously known as IPL based on the lines English Premier League(EPL) and NBA.


Why a format like IPL took a long time in India to implement ? Well, the major reason for this is that Indians follow cricket like religion, relative to any other sport. The traditional cricket i.e. test cricket, majority of times is boring and many a times even after 5 days of contest, there won't be a winner. Also, the one day format(8-10 hr duration), apart from occasional sparks is generally boring. So there wasn't a guarantee of consistent viewership.

In 2003, to increase spectatorship, England came up with an idea of having a 20 over a side contest. The contest twenty-twenty(T20) cricket was a decent success. But the Indian board(BCCI) was a bit skeptical about T20 format and declined to conduct a tournament stating that it is not real cricket. Though, there was a low profile domestic tournament last year but the skepticism persisted.

Things have changed with the success of inaugural T20 world cup in South Africa. A bell rang in Lalit Modi's mind, T20 cricket is a breakthrough product, then why not have a T20 cricket league in India on the lines of EPL ? Then, with the backing the of ICC, Indian Premier League(IPL) was launched in September 2007 and the rest is history.

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