Two new teams have also been found for the Indian Premier League (IPL) next year. Lucknow and Ahmedabad will play two new teams in the next season of IPL. RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group and CVC Capital have won the financial bid in the bidding for both cities on Monday.
🚨 NEWS 🚨: BCCI announces the successful bidders for two new Indian Premier League Franchises
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RP-Sanjeev Goenka Group has taken the franchise for the Lucknow team for Rs 7,090 crore. While CVC Capital has taken the Ahmedabad franchise by bidding for Rs 5,200 crore.
22 business tycoons showed interest
A total of 22 business houses had shown interest to buy both the new IPL teams. These included the Adani Group, the Glazer family, owners of English football club Manchester United, Torrent Pharma, Aurobindo Pharma, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, Hindustan Times Media Group, former minister Naveen Jindal’s Jindal Steel, Ronnie Screwvala and three private equity people.
BCCI will earn good money
After the purchase of two new teams in IPL 2022, the board is going to earn a lot. All those who had to apply for this bid had to submit a form of Rs. Apart from this, the price of any team has been kept at 2 thousand crores. After which it is being estimated that it may take around 7 to 10 thousand crores to buy a team. In such a situation, BCCI is sure to earn good money.
Ten teams have already played
This is not the first time that 10 teams will participate in the IPL, before this such an opportunity has been seen in 2011. Then Pune Warriors, Kochi Tuskers were also included. But due to the IPL controversy, many teams have been dropped. Due to which only 8 teams were able to play IPL matches in 2014. Once again in the next season, 10 teams will be seen playing IPL matches. The number of matches in IPL will also increase from 60 to 74. With the increase of two teams, at least 45 to 50 new players will get a chance to play in the IPL. Among them, there will be 30 to 35 young Indian players.
