A total of 991 players (714 Indian and 277 overseas players) have signed up to be part of the TATA #IPL 2023 Player Auction set to take place on 23rd December 2022 in Kochi.
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The players' list includes 185 capped, 786 uncapped and 20 players from Associate Nations.
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The detailed list is as below:
· Capped Indian (19 players)
· Capped International (166 players)
· Associate (20 players)
· Uncapped Indians who were a part of previous IPL seasons (91 players)
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· Uncapped International who were a part of previous IPL seasons (3 players)
· Uncapped Indians (604 players)
· Uncapped Internationals (88 players)
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Note from BCCI: If every franchise were to have a maximum of 25 players in their squad, 87 players are available to be bought in the auction (of which up to 30 players can be overseas players).
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App Annie, tool for app analytics, says JioCinema garnered 1/3rd of downloads in entertainment in Nov’2022 (29%). In fact, the tool claims JioCinema was the fastest growing app across categories in Nov.
Fifa obviously turned on the magic here & numbers are telling a story.
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Now, what excites me is, cricket hasn't even begun yet. There's a whole new world of tech-driven broadcast to look forward to.
If these numbers are close to reality, I'm beginning to shudder what's tech going to do to this space in 5 yrs!
Cricket is not heading to America. It's already there!
The noise coming from American markets surrounding the T20 Major League Cricket is loud enough already.
Every second day, there's a new announcement catching our imagination.
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Cricket-specific Infrastructure is getting ready in US at a very hurried pace.
Until now, infrastructure alone was seen as the biggest hurdle for the league to move ahead and take any shape. Challenges were foreseen for a machinery running against time & bureaucratic hurdles.
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But the turnaround has been impressive. The manner in which Grand Praire, a minor league baseball stadium in Dallas, has been converted into the home of Dallas' brand new major league cricket team is a case in point.