IPL 2020 the biggest T20 League on earth is all set to start this year from 29th March 2020. The opening match this time is between the two finest teams of IPL i.e. Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings, those are fighting for their supremacy in this league for last so many years. With just more than a month left for this mega event to start, and IPL 2020 schedule of matches declared by BCCI, the fans have started making their travel arrangements to ensure that they don’t miss matches of their favorite teams.

The popularity of this league can be assessed from global viewership of this event. The 12th edition of this league was watched by 462 million viewers between March 23 and May 12, 1919, which means average per match impressions of 27.3 million. This number is far more than NBA viewership per game. Needless to mention that this year will be no different than previous years, and surely IPL 2020 will create new records in viewership this year also.

IPL 2020- Teams

This year again we will have eight wonderful teams fighting their way out to become champion of VIVO IPL 2020. Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians are always hot favourite for this tournament. Chennai Super Kings have reached to finals of this league on 8 occasions and 3 times they succeeded in winning the IPL Cup. Mumbai Indians on other hand have won this title on 4 occasions out of 5 finals they played so far. Kolkata Knight Riders those have won this title twice may also surprise this time with their superb performance.

The list of teams contesting for title are:

Player Auctions

The most important reasons behind huge success of IPL is scintillating performances of the world’s finest batsman, bowlers and fielders to helps their teams to win matches after matches. All 8 Franchises every year invest huge money to get best players from around the world to play for them.

In the current year 62 players were sold (29 overseas and 33 Indian) amid fierce bids among franchises during auction process for IPL 2020. Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins this year has become the most expensive overseas player signed in the history of the tournament by Kolkata Knight Riders for a whopping Rs.15.50 crores. Glenn Maxwell, another player from Australia too earned big deal from Kings XI Punjab with the final bid being locked at Rs.10.75 crores. The West Indian players Sheldon Cottrell and Shimron Hetmyer went for Rs. 8.50 crores and Rs. 7.75 crores during this auction to KXIP and Delhi Capitals respectively. The young batting sensation from Mumbai, Yashasvi Jaiswal went to Rajasthan Royals for a whopping Rs. 2.4 crores while the experienced leggie, Pravin Tambe was bought by KKR.

Brand Value

Duff & Phelps, a global advisory firm has assessed overall evaluation of Indian Premier League of BCCI at US$6.8 billion in 2019, which is 7% more than valuation in 2018. Among Franchises brand value of Mumbai Indians reached to Rs 809 crore followed by Chennai Super Kings at Rs. 732 Crore. Meanwhile, Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore witnessed an 8 per cent decrease in brand value to reach Rs 630 crore and Rs 595 crore respectively.

Prize money

The prize money for IPL 2020 is not declared so far, but considering last season it can be expected that this time returns to winners will be highly lucrative. The 2019 season of the IPL offered a total prize money of ₹500 million (US$7.0 million), with the winning team netting ₹200 million (US$2.8 million). The first and second runners up received ₹125 million (US$1.8 million) and ₹87.5 million (US$1.2 million), respectively, with the fourth placed team also winning ₹87.5 million (US$1.2 million). The other teams are not awarded any prize money. The IPL rules mandate that half of the prize money must be distributed among the players.

Have you booked your tickets??

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