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In response to a report, the celebration will kick off with a grand opening ceremony at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Saturday, March 22, ahead of the match between KKR and RCB.
BCCI to host opening ceremonies across all venues to rejoice 18th edition of Indian Premier League. (Picture Credit: PTI)
The 2025 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is ready to begin on Saturday (March 22) in Kolkata with a match between defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders and Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bengaluru. The match between the 2 teams, which also featured within the first-ever IPL match on April 18, 2008, is ready to happen at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
Ahead of the IPL 2025 season opener, it has been reported that to rejoice the 18 years of IPL, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is planning to host special opening ceremonies across all 13 venues this yr.
In response to a report in Sportstar on Tuesday (March 18), which quoted a source as saying, “The celebration will kick off with a grand opening ceremony featuring Bollywood superstars and celebrities from the music industry on the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on March 22. The festive fervour will proceed throughout the season with each venue kickstarting its first match with a cultural programme featuring distinguished artists.”
“We desired to add more flavour to the tournament in order that spectators from each venue can get a taste of the opening ceremony. For the cultural programmes in each venue, we’re planning to create a line-up of national and native artists,” a well-placed source told Sportstar.
Singer Shreya Ghosal and Bollywood actress Disha Patani are set to perform through the opening ceremony in Kolkata on Saturday, which will even be attended by ICC chairman Jay Shah.
As per the available information, the BCCI is now within the ‘final stages of conversations’ with a couple of other noted artists for the opposite 12 events.
“The thought is to have a varied pool of Bollywood artists performing for all of the programmes, and with limited time in between the innings, two to a few artists may very well be accommodated for these events,” the source said, adding that the line-up of artists and celebrities shall be finalised by Wednesday.
“Since this is occurring at such a scale for the primary time, there are some logistical issues as well. So, the BCCI and State associations are working in tandem to be certain that the programmes are conducted easily without hampering the matches.”
The matches of IPL 2025 are set to happen in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Recent Chandigarh, Dharamsala, Guwahati and Visakhapatnam from March 22 to May 25.
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Kolkata [Calcutta], India, India
