Overview
- Lalit Modi, in interviews reported Tuesday, claimed the IPL leaves about Rs 2,400 crore a year on the table by not running a full home-and-away season.
- He based the figure on a 10-team double round-robin that would create 94 league games, where each team plays every other team twice, versus the current 74-match season.
- Modi pegged media rights at roughly Rs 118 crore per game and said the shorter slate removes 20 broadcasts that would raise the total rights take.
- He asserted the BCCI keeps 50% of per-game revenue and the rest goes to franchises, estimating teams collectively miss Rs 1,200 crore, or about Rs 120 crore each.
- He called home-and-away a contractual duty and questioned expanding to 10 teams without calendar space, noting his remarks came after record RCB and RR sales, while the IPL continues with 74 matches and the BCCI has not publicly responded.