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The festival of cricket is arriving with the world’s richest T20 tournament – Indian Premier League. The organisers of the league have come out with the new anthem for the new season like every year. ‘Game banayega name’ is the tag-line for the song and this year’s IPL.
The video features some of the game’s greatest players and the emerging ones. For instance MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin and Dinesh Karthik are the ones with experience, while Rishabh Pant, Jaydev Unadkat and Rashid Khan are the few youngsters who got the chance to be in the new anthem video.
The theme of the video goes with the title of the anthem, ‘Game banayega name’, where some new comers or juniors as referred in the song are seen fighting for the space with the star players as they too want to get into their shoes.
The dates for 2019 edition of Indian Premier League has been announced by the organisers. Defending champions Chennai Super Kings will play Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore in the opener on March 23 in Chennai’s Chepauk Stadium.
However, the dates announced are only for first seventeen matches, where each team will play a minimum of 4 matches each while Delhi and Bangalore will play five matches. Every team will play two away and two home matches with Delhi playing three home matches and Bangalore playing three away games.
First published: 6 March 2019, 12:41 IST