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IPL, the billion-dollar first-of-its-kind in cricket, is loosly
modelled after the mega sporting events English Premier League (EPL) a
football league in UK and MLB (Baseball league in North America).
However the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question is: Will the much-hyped
T20 league match EPL and MLB in magnitude or is this a gigantic bubble
waiting to burst. Time alone will tell.
Each team
will play seven others in the fray on home and away basis. The top four
teams at the end of league stages will make it to semis' and bottom
four will play classification ties. The inaugural event, involving 59
ties, will kick-off on Apr 18, when Mallaya-owned Bangalore Royal
Challengers take on Kolkata owned by SRK at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in
Bangalore. The franchise teams will battle it out for 44 days for a
US$3m prize money.
Indian Premiere Leaguee - Opening Ceremony 2008
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