Ultimate two IPL league fits to start out on the identical time on October 8

Two new franchies for IPL 2022 to be unveiled on October 25

In a primary, the general two fits within the league section of the IPL will get started concurrently. As according to the unique time table, the league section was once scheduled to finish with a double header on October 8. Within the morning fit, beginning at 11 am UAE time, Sunrisers Hyderabad had been scheduled to stand protecting champions Mumbai Indians in Abu Dhabi whilst the night fit, beginning at 6 pm UAE time, would see Royal Challengers Bangalore play Delhi Capitals. Now each fits will start on the identical time on October 8, at 6 pm native time.

Whilst the BCCI introduced the verdict by the use of a media liberate on Tuesday, pronouncing each fits will likely be performed “similtaneously” it didn’t provide an explanation for the precise reasoning in the back of the transfer. Alternatively, ESPNcricnfo understands that recommendation to have each fits run in parallel was once given via Big name, the IPL broadcaster. It’s discovered that STAR sought after to do a tribulation run in preparation for the 2022 season when the IPL will likely be an tournament with a number of double headers.

The closing time IPL was once a 10-team tournament was once in 2011, when there have been 70 league fits and 4 playoff video games. The closing time greater than 8 groups performed within the IPL was once in 2013, when 9 groups took phase and performed a complete of 76 fits.

Two new IPL franchises on October 25
The IPL Governing Council, on Tuesday, additionally determined to unveil the 2 new franchises on October 25. The cut-off date to publish the bids was once just lately prolonged to October 10. It’s discovered that about 11 bidders had purchased the smooth file thus far. The BCCI has set the minimal bid value for each and every of the brand new franchises within the area of INR 2000 crore (USD 270 million approx). There are six towns within the fray, together with Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Guwahati and Cuttack, with a success bidders proudly owning the brand new groups for perpetuity.

The BCCI has additionally determined to factor a young for the IPL media rights for the following cycle (2023-27) on October 25. The IPL media rights are probably the most profitable assets in cricket. In 2017, Big name India paid a document 16,347.5 crore (US$ 2.55 billion then) to bag the consolidated IPL rights – each tv and virtual international – for the 2018-22 seasons.

Again then the BCCI has put the bids for seven classes: tv in India, virtual in India, and rights for the US, Europe, Center East, Africa and the remainder of the arena. For the 5 world markets, the bids integrated each tv and virtual rights.