The Indian Premier League (IPL), officially vivo Indian Premier League
for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 league in India
contested during April and May of every year by teams representing
Indian cities and some states. The league was founded by the Board of control For cricket in India (BCCI) in 2008, and is regarded as the brainchild of Lalit Modi, the founder and former commissioner of the league. IPL has an exclusive window in ICC Fature Towrs programme.
The IPL is the most-attended cricket league in the world and in 2014
ranked sixth by average attendance among all sports leagues. In 2010, the IPL became the first sporting event in the world to be broadcast live on Youtube. The brand value of IPL in 2017 was US$5.3 billion, according to Duff & phelps. According to BCCI, the 2015 IPL season contributed ₹11.5 billion (US$182 million) to the GDP of the INDIAN ECONOMY.
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