IPL 2019 is on air, in an election year for the first time. Know every interesting detail inside.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced its full schedule for the Indian Premium League 2019. Now that the world knows, the 12th edition of the Indian Premier League is being entirely played in India, the tournaments have begun from March 23. The entire IPL tournament will be held in India, along with all the eight franchises playing games at their respective venues. This has come after a lot of thought on conducting the IPL, 2019 outside India due to the General Elections, the IPL Governing Council and Supreme Court appointed CoA have finally decided to conduct the tournament in India.

News has it that, The governing council was waiting for the dates of 2019 General Elections to be announced to plan the full schedule of this year’s IPL. Now that the Lok Sabha elections dates are out – which will be held in 7 phases from 11 April 2019 to 19 May 2019, IPL schedule has also been announced.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) started its 12th edition this Saturday i.e 23rd March, 2019. As expected, everything BCCI and the sponsors have gone a mile extra.

From feeds in multiple languages, to exclusive digital engagement and innovative wrap programming, there’s plenty in store for the 2019 IPL edition.

Let’s take you through some interesting details.

Multiple language telecasts via Star Sports

Apart from Hindi and English, the tournament will be telecast in multiple Indian languages — Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Bengali — all of these will be telecast on Star Sports. In addition, the opening and closing ceremonies, and the Sunday matches will be telecast in Marathi and Malayalam on entertainment channels in the respective language from the Star India network.

Community viewing & live gaming

Apart from multiple languages, the network has also designed special feeds and programmes to engage with family audiences over the weekend

On Hotstar, the network has introduced innovations through technology that include community viewing experience through the app, and games too.

Star Sports Select Dugout 2.0 to keep fans ahead of the game

The Select Dugout will be aired on Star Sports Select 1 (SD and HD) providing fans with richer analytical experience coupled with a stimulating narrative during matches to stay ahead of the game

“The advantage of the Select Dugout is that we are bringing in insights both as a player and as a coach and then reading the game as it progresses, and then probably predicting what is going on in the minds of the players; what the batsmen are thinking or what the bowler is thinking and what would be his reaction and try to bring that to the fans. I think that is something which will be very useful for all the viewers, not just them, but also for the players and the team to start thinking about their team and their strategies. We will have to bring in a bit more predictive element in the Select Dugout and perhaps bring in a bit more of analysis and in-depth information in our demo zones.”

– Anil Kumble, former Indian cricketer and Select Dugout Expert

Several sponsors have been roped in for the league

The network has roped in 18 sponsors for the league on TV, and eight for Hotstar. Reports say that last year, Star India earned around Rs 2,000 crore in advertising revenue from the IPL. Let’s see if this year’s a game changer for their revenue returns as well.

The complete schedule of the league stage for the Indian Premier League season 12 was announced by the Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) in India on Tuesday (March 19). The schedule has been evenly balanced with all eight teams playing seven home matches at their respective home venues and also in terms of afternoon matches, weekend matches and travel.

The schedule for the first 17 matches of the IPL was announced by the governing council. BCCI revealed that from 23rd March 2019 to 0th April 2019, 17 matches will be played. The first match of this year’s IPL will be played between defending champions Chennai Super Kings and Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers on March 23 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. And the league stage will end with the match between three-time winners Mumbai Indians and two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on May 5.

IPL 2019 schedule 

All the 8 franchises will play their matches in their home stadiums during that two week period before the elections. All the teams are scheduled to play four matches during that period with RCB and Delhi Capitals (DC) playing five. While the other teams will play 2 home and 2 away matches, RCB will be playing 3 away matches and DC  will play 3 home matches.

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