IPL 2022: BCCI eyes Rs 5,000 crore profits as base price for new teams kept at Rs 2,000 crore

The BCCI stands to gain at least Rs 5,000 crore if the bids go as per plan with plenty of large business conglomerates showing active interest in bidding.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) could soon get richer by at least Rs 5,000 crore with the addition of two new franchises during the 2022 edition of Indian Premier League (IPL). The IPL, which is currently an eight-team tournament, will become a 10-team affair from the next edition and during a recent governing council meeting, the modalities of the bidding process were chalked out. “Any company can buy the bid document paying Rs 75 crore. Earlier top brass was thinking about keeping the base price for two new teams at Rs 1700 crore but later it was decided to keep the base price at Rs 2000 crore,” a senior BCCI source told news agency PTI on the condition of anonymity. The source, who has dealt with the financial side of IPL in the past, said that the BCCI stands to gain at least Rs 5,000 crore if the bids go as per plan with plenty of large business conglomerates showing active interest in bidding.