IPL's popularity

In a cricket-crazed nation like India where cricket is like religion, Indian Premier League, IPL has taken huge limelight and lured thousands of spectators. IPL started with a bang and generated billions of dollars from different revenue sources. In such a short span of time, IPL has sizzled and made special place in the heart of cricket aficionados not only in entire country but worldwide. Now, it can be a debatable question whether domestic cricket like Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy will end with the emergence of this new brand of Cricket !!

IPL is getting popular with each day passing on. What are those significant factors which have made IPL talk of the nation? Is it the presence of films stars like Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Juhi Chawla that has added glamour to cricket world or the involvement of powerful industrialists like Mukesh Ambani, Vijay Mallya and others which has propelled the IPL to another level altogether? Or is it the new concept of cosmopolitan teams where star-performers of different countries playing under one roof which is the source of motivation for cricket lovers. Whatever it is, it's incredible-it's cricket redefined!

IPL is full of entertainment and excitement. IPL’s philosophy matches with today’s youth’s lifestyle who believes in achieving all success through shortcuts. People simply love the Twenty-20 format as they have got bored watching those lengthy test series or even the 50 over match. For audience those action pact 3 hours dramatic, nail biting shows are really entertaining.

Credit also goes to those heavyweight names of film industry, who not only invested their interest and money in the world of cricket but also brought along their huge fan following. Indian media played a huge role in attracting huge masses. The concept of cosmopolitan team may help players to reduce their tensions with each other and now they may take each game more sportingly. As a team they can learn to deal with diverse lifestyle, culture, thinking pattern, game styles etc.
Not only male audiences, women are getting hooked to IPL T20 cricket as never before. More and more Indian women are trooping into the stadiums to watch live Indian Premier League matches and the same number of female audiences are gluing near their respective television sets.
IPL has all the ingredients of a pure Bollywood masala movie. It has drama, action, suspense, glamour, Hero, Heroines, and Villains (for those politicians who were against cheer-leaders). People are not watching IPL for mere cricket; it has everything in it like film stars, cricket starts, cheer-leaders, industry veterans and so on which is responsible for attracting a huge crowd.