IPL Buzz !!!

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.

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.