IPL is the league that every country waits for. This league is famous in the cricket world. People sit waiting for this league and when this league is shown on TV, the fans get glued to the TV. Let's decide the time to watch IPL, but this time IPL will not be seen in one country. People of this country will not be able to see the players of their country as well as their favourite cricketers playing in IPL-2023. This country is South Africa. IPL started in 2008 and since then this will be the first time that IPL will not be broadcast in South Africa.
ESPNcricinfo has told in its report that SuperSport, one of the main broadcasters of South Africa, has confirmed that it has not bought the broadcast rights of IPL this time. Earlier, Supersport had bought the broadcast rights to the last 15 seasons of IPL. But this time it lost these rights to Viacom18 in June last year. Viacom has bought the rights of IPL for the African continent.
The solution could have been
Apart from this, Viacom 18 has also bought the rights to Australia, New Zealand and England. But this company is not present in these countries. In such a situation, the broadcasters of these countries have tied up with Viacom 18, under which IPL will be broadcast in these countries, but Supersports has not made any such agreement with Viacom. The website quoted a SuperSport spokesperson as saying that Super Sport had the broadcast rights of IPL before, but this time what Super Sport talked about could not succeed on the commercial issue and hence it did not get the rights of IPL. About 6 crore people of Africa will not be able to watch IPL.
Fans will be angry
This will definitely disappoint the fans of South Africa as 10 players from this country will play in IPL. Aiden Markram of South Africa is also the captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad. This year the South Africa T20 league was organized in this country and in this league, the IPL franchisees bought teams.
