Indian Premier League Cricket

Mukesh Ambani, Mallya, SRK win IPL bids

Friday, January 25th, 2008

The high-profile Indian Premier League on Thursday received overwhelming response as India's top industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Vijay Mallya, and film stars Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta won bids to own teams in the Twenty20 venture. After much suspense, Board of Control for Cricket in India vice-president and IPL governing council ...

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Sony catches $1bn Indian Premier League cricket rights

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Sports broadcaster Sony Max and sports rights company World Sport Group have jointly paid US$1.026bn for the rights to the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket championship. The deal gives the partnership shared rights to the series for 10 years, and brings with it a change of direction for Sony Max parent ...

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