In opening day of IPL 2009 two matches and opening ceremony will be held in
This year IPL will be 15 minutes longer than the previous times. Previously, the Twenty20 cricket was scheduled for 3 hour but in the second season of the IPL 2009, t have brought changes and extended it 15 minutes. Now question is; what will happen in this extended time? I think it is a tactics to get extra revenues from the Advertisers.
The inaugural IPL’s opening ceremony was celebrated in the
This year the opening match will be commence on between IPL Mumbai vs IPL Chennai and the team will be leaded star batsman of India ever Sachin Tendulkar and the most successful captain at this moment MS Dhoni.
Although the opening match will be stared from 18 April 2009 but the opening ceremony will be held today. No doubt that the stadium will be full with a lot of bollywood stars such as Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Shilpa Shetty along with the cricketers
Regional Broadcast Rights | |
Sony/World Sport Group | Global Rights, |
Network Ten | Free-to-air television in |
Sky Network Television | |
Setanta Sports | |
Arab Digital Distribution | |
Willow TV | Rights to distribute on television, radio, broadband and Internet, for the IPL in |
Super Sport | |
GEO Super | |
Asian Television Network | Canadian broadcast rights. Aired on ATN's CBN & ATN Cricket Plus channels on a subscription basis. Aired on XM Radio's ATN-Asian Radio as well. |
Here are the lists of the tv channels which will broadcast the whole matches including opening ceremony.