The twenty overs format of Cricket was brought in by the Indian cricket control board, BCCI, last year. The first version of the Indian Premier League, conducted in 2008 was a great success and the BCCI raked in over 100 million dollars of profits from the six weeks event conducted in India.

This year IPL2 matches are scheduled to happen in South Africa, and if you go by the advertisement bookings done in the Sony Max channel, we can expect the IPL2 to be a great success.

There are eight teams vying for the trophy, and each team has a maximum of four foreign players, and seven Indian players. Each team will play for twenty overs and the entire game will be over in three hours time.

The viewers will have interesting moments almost every minute , and especially the last one hour of the game is always nail biting. Compared to the twenty overs format, the current one day game format is relatively boring, which runs through for over six hours.

And a decade back, one day format of cricket was not popular, and only the five days format was ruling the roost. The Indian cricket board has now become the source of funding for the International Cricket Council.