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Cricket Lovers, here is a great news. You can now watch IPL semi-final and Finals on Youtube LIVE for FREE. Willow TV’s Announcement on the Offer As part of Willow TV's continued efforts to bring widespread exposure to the sport of cricket in North America, we have partnered with YouTube to bring the Indian Premier League 2010 semi finals and finals live on YouTube. These matches will be available live and free of cost starting on April 21, 2010, at http://www.youtube.com/ipl . The matches will be available in the same high quality streaming experience available from http://www.willow.tv . This is the first of many other such initiatives from Willow TV to popularize cricket in North America, with a particular focus on highly entertaining Twenty20 format. Please stay tuned to Willow TV for many more exciting announcements in the near future!

YouTube has announced an exclusive deal to broadcast live online the entire cricket season of the upstart Indian Premier League this year. [This is] the largest and most extensive live streaming that weve ever done, I think thats ever been done on the internet before, Shailesh Rao, Managing Director, Google India said yesterday. The season will be shown everywhere around the world except inside the United States. Via Readwrite web

Cricket finally goes Franchise style in India. Not only the format has evolved in to a quick and spicy 20 overs style to gain more market acceptance, but now bringing in more teams and more games in the franchise style. Much like the NFL and NBA, Indian Premier League (IPL) created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and sanctioned by the International Cricket Council , is a Twenty20 cricket competition. I love Cricket. I used to play a lot and watch a ridiculous lot. But its so painful to watch cricket games as each game is played for about 8-10 hours. Then came a Twenty20 match style where the game is reduced to 2-3 hours game. While it is fun to watch the twenty 20 game, you will miss so much of the class and elegance of cricket strokes in this short form of the game. Well, for some, it doesn't matter at all. In fact, for many the game looks spicy now in this short version. Franchise model will definitely do much better for the Marketing of the game and ...