There was also a proposal to advance the 4pm matches by an hour but the franchises don’t seem keen on that idea either. (Image source: BCCI) There was also a proposal to advance the 4pm matches by an hour but the franchises don’t seem keen on that idea either. Star India, the official IPL broadcaster, had requested the BCCI for a change in timing, which the IPL governing council had accepted in principle during their last meeting at Bengaluru. The overlap will result in one-and-a-half hours of each IPL match losing out on viewers,” a franchise official told The Indian Express. There was also a proposal to advance the 4pm matches by an hour but the franchises don’t seem keen on that idea either.

Source: Indian Express February 08, 2018 01:18 UTC