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The fight to clinch the media rights of IPL for the next five years was intense. Why has the race become so intense despite a dip in IPL viewership? And what do the winners stand to gain?
Bidding for non-exclusive rights for the mega cricket league to continue today
Thanks to all the action on Monday, the per-match value at the IPL now stands at $13.78 million (Rs 107.5 crore)
Package A (Indian sub-continent TV Rights) for 410 IPL matches across five seasons from 2023 to 2027 has been sold for Rs 23,575 crore, which is effectively Rs 57.5 crore per game
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The winner of the IPL TV rights is eyeing the digital rights and has the right to rebid in the second category, according to rules laid down in the tender document
That's more than 2.5 times higher than the value of previous cycle
Each might garner Rs 500 cr annually from media rights, up from Rs 201.65 cr that all 10 of them made in 2022
With the bidding going into the second day, the cumulative valuation of the media rights could well touch a staggering Rs 50,000 cr-mark
IPL media rights auction: Though tech giants Amazon, Google and Apple have pulled out of the race, there appears to be no impact so far on the overall value of the bids being made
The e-auction for the media rights from 2023 to 2027 will be held on June 12.
The 29-year-old all-rounder said that he would get up at 5 AM and sleep at 9:30 in the night for four successive months during his time away from the Indian team after the T20 World Cup.
Amazon, Alphabet, Apple pull out of media rights auction
Jeff Bezos, Mukesh Ambani's companies are expected to be the top two contenders at a June 12 Indian Premier League auction, which is likely to lure several bidders
The tournament will also provide a valuable platform for Emirates Cricket to take their local talent to a higher level.
DC's five-wicket defeat enabled Royal Challengers Bangalore to make it despite an inferior net run-rate throughout the tournament.
Following the 15th edition of IPL that saw debutants Gujarat Titans being crowned as champions in Ahmedabad, the action now shifts to Team India.
In the IPL, Siraj had an economy rate of 10.07 with only nine wickets from 15 games but even bigger ignominy was being hit for a whopping 31 sixes, highest by any bowler in history of the tournament.
Shastri, whose tenure as India coach ended last year, said he doesn't "remember a single (T20) game in the last six-seven years as coach of India, barring the World Cup."