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  IPL Schedule 2021- 14th edition will be held only after April 10 :  BCCI is yet to announce the dates for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 14th edition. However, the latest England tour of India schedule has given a hint of when it IPL 2021 can start from. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday announced the dates for India’s four-Test, five T20I and three ODI series against England. The two-month-long series begins from February 5 in Chennai for the first Test. The longest-format of the game ends on March 8. It will be followed by T20I series which is scheduled from March 12 to 20. Following this, India and England play the ODI series which ends on March 28. After this long and hectic series, it is likely that the players would want a break before joining their respective IPL franchises for IPL 2021. A 10-day break for the players would help them rejuvenate and get ready for the new IPL season. It will not be a shocker if IPL begins from the second...

  The Board of Control for Cricket in India  (BCCI)  is all set to approve the addition of two new teams in the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) season. The approval will reportedly be given in the Annual General Meeting of the board scheduled to take place on December 24. This isn’t the first time that the IPL will have 10 teams fighting for the glory. In 2011, 10 teams had featured in the season while in the next two editions of the T20 extravaganza, nine teams had taken part. And now with the BCCI likely to approve two new teams, the IPL 2021 is also set to have 10 teams. Earlier, it was reported that only one team will be added ahead of the next season while the 10th franchise will be added the following season. However, the franchises were reportedly not happy with this as two mega auctions would’ve taken place in that case. Meanwhile, the addition of two new teams will now bring a spate of changes to the next IPL season. What will be the format for IPL 2021? Cur...

  The online fantasy gaming market is set to explode with the upcoming season of  the Indian Premier League  (IPL), with industry players and analysts expecting fans to spend $1-1.5 billion (Rs 7,000-10,000 crore) to predict the performance of players. Platforms like  Dream11 ,  My11Circle  and HalaPlay - besides more recent entrants like Paytm and  Mobile Premier League  (MPL) - are competing to attract users as cricket makes a comeback after over six months. What is expected to drive growth is the pent-up demand among consumers locked up at home and deprived of entertainment like movies and live sports ever since the Covid-19 pandemic started in March. This, along with hundreds of crores in marketing expenditure by fantasy gaming platforms, including market leader Dream11 winning the title sponsorship of IPL for Rs 222 crore last month, is expected to further increase interest in the market. The number of consumers on  fantasy sports plat...

  Disney-Star India has sold 128 per cent of the ad inventory on TV for the broadcast of the 13 th  edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), highly placed sources close to the development have confirmed to Adgully. It has signed on Dream11, PhonePe, Amazon and BYJU’s as Co-Presenting sponsors and Coca Cola, Polycab, United Spirits, Kamala Pasand, RummyCircle, Gillette, Mondelez, ITC, AFMI and Dailyhunt. Last year, Hotstar had sold most of the tournament inventory, including digital sponsorships, in a combined package deal. This year, there is less ad inventory on Disney+ Hotstar, besides the VOD service was unable to renew key digital distribution partnerships from last year like its association with Jio Platforms that exposed it to a potential 400 million viewers. What’s more, Disney+ Hotstar will air the livestream of the tournament behind a paywall and viewers will only be able to watch 5 minutes of the live feed before being prompted to subscribe. In earnings call for t...

  Telecom company Vodafone Idea, recently rebranded as Vi, has become the co-presenting sponsor of  Indian Premier league  (IPL) 2020 along with gaming company Dream11. "Vi has acquired the co-sponsorship rights of the live broadcast of T-20 premier league which will be held in  Abu Dhabi , UAE and telecast on the  Star Sports network ," Vi said in a statement on Saturday. The  sponsorship announcement  comes after the telecom carrier launched the unified brand Vi, having completed the integration of Voddafone India and Idea Cellular. Dream11 had won the title sponsorship rights of the 53-day cricket event for Rs 222 crore last month after Smartphone company Vivo dropped out of the this year's sponsorship. Kavita Nair, Chief Digital Transformation & Brand Officer,  Vodafone Idea Limited   NSE -2.19 %  said, "Our association with Dream11 IPL 2020 will provide Vi, instant connect with millions of viewers, and I am confident tha...

Several members of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) contingent, including an India medium-pacer, have tested positive for  Covid-19  in Dubai, it is learnt. Sources said, positive results came after CSK players, squad members and support staff underwent  coronavirus  tests on Thursday. The Indian Express  understands that apart from the India seamer, who plays in the shorter formats, a few net bowlers, some members of the digital/social media team and a CSK team official, too, have tested positive. The Chennai-based Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise were scheduled to start training from Friday, but it is learnt that following the latest development, the team has deferred it until September 1. Those who have tested positive will self-isolate for 14 days outside the bio-bubble. The IPL quarantine protocol for Covid positive individuals says: “This will follow the Government policy and is currently 14 days. During the 14-day quarantine, the individual will be test...

Three-time   Indian Premier League  champions Chennai Super Kings held a five-day training camp in Chennai earlier this month before the squad travelled to UAE for the upcoming season of the tournament. No other franchise held a camp like this, and in a recent interaction, CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan revealed how CSK captain   MS Dhoni   convinced him to go ahead with the camp. “When we announced the tournament is going to happen, I had reservations about conducting the camp here because the bio-bubble had to be created. In fact sent a message to him (asking) whether it will be worthwhile having a camp for 5 days before going to Dubai. But the captain was crystal clear in his thoughts,” Viswanathan said in a video uploaded on YouTube by CSK.  “He (Dhoni) said ‘sir, we have not played for nearly 4-5 months. All of us need to get together in Chennai. We should be in a bio-bubble in Chennai so that we get used to that when we land in Dubai’. “And also it helped in the...

UK-based safety and security operating company Restrata has secured the deal to build the bio-security bubble for the  Indian Premier League  ( IPL ) in UAE this year. Restrata, which operates out of the United Kingdom and the UAE, pipped the Tata group to secure the deal. The company, which specialises in "covering last-mile safety, security and mobility operations", had worked with the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) during the London Games in 2012 and most recently was hired by the England & Wales  Cricket  Board ( ECB ) to build the bio-secure bubble for the series against the West Indies and Pakistan, when cricket returned after a five-month break. Those tracking developments said: "What worked in favour of Restrata was that it is more cost-effective than what the Tatas are offering, had past and recent expertise in handling global sports events, and has had a recent first-hand experience with cricket too". The  BCCI  has notified all...

  Indian  cricket  is gearing up for a show of strength and whatever happens between now and the next 72 hours will determine the size of the game's financial muscle in the country, especially in the middle of an unrelenting  pandemic .   The  BCCI  has decided to expand its official partners in the  Indian Premier League  ( IPL ) from three to five - looking to bring two additional partners at an average commitment of Rs 40cr each - and are aiming to raise anywhere around Rs 300cr in the wake of Vivo's exit.   The cricket board is zeroing in on a "substantial deal" and could end up throwing a surprise by the end of the week where the title rights are concerned. "There's chatter about Amazon, Byju's, Dream 11 being in the race. But expect BCCI to spring a surprise," say those tracking developments.   Considering the deal will only be for a four-month window, anything in the given range will be heralded a huge victory not...