IPL is back again in its season 12. In April 2019, the game will start. Till now BCCI has not confirmed about the venue, but probably it will be held in UAE. IPL is not being held in India due to the 2019 election. A probably match schedule has been announced based on the UAE stadiums.
This year also Star India has been the official broadcaster of the IPL matched directly in India. They have announced the name of the sponsors which numbers to 80. This year new 12 brands have been included who were not in the list of early years.
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Here is something new this year
BCCI invited the bids for the IPL sponsorships. They have given for six official partners, one strategic timeout partner, and one umpire partner in this IPL season. Experts are guessing that this season would be the biggest one than all the others which were arranged till now. This time Umpire partner sponsor is the new addition by BCCI. In the bid, this sponsorship was won by the Paytm, mobile wallet brand. Paytm has been given the sponsorship for five years from the year 2018 to 2022. This brand would also be the title sponsor of the Indian cricket.
Among the brands which have been in the sponsorship, ZooZoos will be there. They had previously entertained their fan too in case of IPL matches. This year the ZooZoo will be coming in a new ninja avatar and will be entertaining the people and the fans of the ZooZoo.
CEAT tire will also continue the association with the IPL this year also. The brand would be associated with the annual tournament and the official timeout partner. This contract has also been made for five years, until 2022. It was started in the last season that is in the year 2018.
Commercial partners of the IPL
As the commercial partner, star India is having the brands like the Vivo, Coca-Cola, and Jio as the co-presenting partners. Polycab, Parle products, AMFI, Make My Trip, Vimal Pan masala, Asian paints and Dream 11 are the associate sponsors. Besides, there will also be Amazon, Vodafone, Pepsi Co, Mondelez, Samsung, Nivea, MRF, Honda motors and scooters, Policy Bazaar.com, Swiggy, Shaadi.com, Madhura garments.
So, this year would be a huge one celebrating the IPL matches at UAE. Official Broadcaster will be telecasting the matches LIVE on their channels so that Indian can watch them.
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Vivo IPL 2018 teams and players are here
Get an idea about the IPL teams of this year, 2019. These were also the
Let us have an overview of the vivo IPL 2018 team quad list which is also same for 2019who will be participating in this season:
- King XI Punjab, the team captain, is R. Ashwin. The cricket lovers will also get Chris Gayle and David Miller with other players in this team.
- A Delhi capital, the team captain is Shreyas Iyer and also gets Shikar Dhawan. Among the international ones, Chris Morris and Colin Munro are the renowned ones.
- Sunriser Hyderabad- get David Warner and Yusuf Pathan in the team.
- Chennai super kings have Suresh Raina and Mahendra Singh Dhoni from our Indian team.
- Kolkata Knight Riders, the team captain, is Dinesh Kartik
- Rajasthan Royals
- Mumbai Indians, the team captain is Rohit Sharma
- Royal Challengers Bangalore, you have Virat Kohli in this team.
All these teams will have new and young Players with these renowned ones who were
BCCI rules for submission of bids
The BCCI has announced the last date of submission of the expression of interest of the sponsorship is by 17th January and the last bid by 31st January. Till now no final list of the sponsorship has been created. Once it is created, the final list would be announced. Hopefully, we will be getting the final list of the sponsors by the mid of February month. Whichever brands get selected would be announced through the official announcement of the BCCI.
Whichever brands get final selection in the sponsorship will be shown on the advertising board. LED perimeter would be used to be casting it on the advertising board or the pitch mat on outfield mid wicket, boundary rope. Thus the brand will be having a digital presence over the game.
So now it is the time to wait and watch till BCCI announces the final ones. I hope we all Indian would be enjoying the IPL a lot this year. All of us are waiting for this huge event to come. But this year many would not get the chance of enjoying it from the stadium. Or you may have to take a foreign trip for that. The
Well, let us wait and see.
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