Question

Short paragraph - IPL 2018

Answer 1

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The 2018 season of the Indian Premier League, also known as IPL 11, was the eleventh season of the IPL, a professional Twenty20 cricket league established by the BCCI in 2007. The season, which is being held from 7 April to 27 May, saw the return of the Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royalsafter serving two years of suspension for the involvement of their respective owners in the 2013 IPL betting case. Star Sports purchased the media rights at ₹16,347.5 crore ($2.55 billion) for five years starting from 2018.


Chennai Super Kings won by 8 wickets against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the finalto win their third title. Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Kane Williamsonwon the Orange Cap for the leading run-scorer of the tournament with 735 runs. Andrew Tye, of Kings XI Punjab, was awarded the Purple Cap for finishing as the leading wicket-taker of the tournament with 24 wickets. Sunil Narine of Kolkata Knight Riders was named the Most Valuable Player, also known as Player of the Series, while Rishabh Pant of Delhi Daredevils was named the Emerging Player of the Season.

Answer 2

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during April and May of every year by franchise teams representing Indian cities. The league was founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. The IPL is the most-attended cricket league in the world and ranks sixth among all sports leagues. In 2010, the IPL became the first sporting event in the world to be broadcast live on YouTube.

IPL boasts of being the most-attended cricket league all over the world and in 2014 it stood sixth by average attendance as compared to all sports leagues. In 2010, the cricket league went on to be the first global sporting event to be broadcasted live on YouTube.

As of 2017, the brand value of IPL was 5.3 billion dollars as stated by Duff & Phelps. Also as per the BCCI, the 2015 IPL season contributed Rs 11.5 billion to the entire GDP of India’s economy.