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Ahead of the archetypal Qualifier here, Arun Dhumal, the IPL chairman, spoke to The Hindu about the mode up for the league.
On expanding the IPL to 94 games
Ideally, successful a 10-team format, you should person 9 location and 9 distant games. Logistical challenges and the committedness fixed to bilateral bid are the reasons we haven’t made it 9 each. In lawsuit a bigger model allows america to person 2 much weeks added, we volition look astatine expanding the fig of games.
On the reported driblet successful viewership this year
I bash not cognize wherever that study came from. According to the latest study that came from the broadcaster, the assemblage has grown vis-a-vis the erstwhile twelvemonth successful presumption of full consumption. The determination channels person worked precise good successful improving our reach.
On uncovering different window
We request to talk to the broadcaster connected whether the tourney tin beryllium moved to different window. One proposition was a model successful September-October. That is the champion clip from an advertiser constituent of presumption due to the fact that it is conscionable earlier Diwali. Weather is different situation that we are facing present with May getting precise hot. We are looking if we tin find a model from February to April and past aboriginal successful the year.
