Indian Premier League (IPL): Live in SuperSports TV Channel in South Africa

Indian Premier League (IPL) is going to start from 18 April 2008. This multi-million dollar tournament is now one of the biggest attractions of the cricket world. Star cricketers like Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar, Jacques Kallis, Graeme Kallis, Andrew Symonds, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sanath Jayasuria, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Brett Lee are going to take part in the competition. So, you can see that the names are enough to attract the cricket fans. Moreover, the tournament format is Twenty20 which is perhaps the most exciting version of cricket. The tournament will kick off on Friday with Bangalore Royal Challengers taking on Kolkata Knight Riders at the
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.

There will be 59 matches in the tournament where the eight participating teams will play against each other twice and the four teams with highest points will reach the semi final. Then the winners of the semi final face each other in the final of Indian premier league twentry20 tournament on 1 June 2008.

As the matches will be held only in different venues of India, the cricket fans around the world would have to enjoy the matches on television. For example, Ten Networks will telecast the match in Australia, Setanta Sports in UK and Ireland and in India Sony SET Max will telecast the matches live.

Similarly, in South Africa, the telecast right of IPL matches goes to SuperSports television channel. SuperSports would telecast the matches of Indian premier league live in South Africa.

SuperSport is one of the most popular sports channel in Africa. Last year, SuperSport showed the matches of ICC World Twenty20 Championship which was held in South Africa. So, if you are currently in Africa then you can enjoy the exciting Twenty20 matches of Indian premier league in SuperSport television channel.

You can get the TV schedule of Indian premier league matches on SuperSport here.