The final of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 will start at 8PM IST. This, Cricbuzz understands, is in view of an additional feature lined up on the final day - a cultural closing ceremony.
The final of IPL 2022 will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium at Motera in Ahmedabad next Sunday (May 29).
Cricbuzz has learnt from the BCCI and IPL authorities that the closing ceremony, involving Bollywood personalities, is scheduled to start at 6:30 PM IST and will run for a duration of 50 minutes. The toss will be held at 7:30 PM IST and the match will start 30 minutes later.
Incidentally, the news comes just a day after Cricbuzz reported that the BCCI's preferred timing for starting the evening IPL matches is 8PM, which used to be the schedule the league followed for the first 10 years, from 2008-17.
The opening and closing ceremonies involving Bollywood stars were regular features of the IPL in its first decade. It was discontinued under the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) regime for three years which the current dispensation followed for the first two years of its charge.
Even this year there was no opening ceremony on March 26, when the IPL started. The decision to hold the closing ceremony was an afterthought, taken at an Apex Council meeting later.
The IPL has reached the business-end of the competition with the league stage concluding this Sunday (May 22). The four-match play-offs are being staged in Kolkata and Ahmedabad with the former hosting the Qualifier 1 and the Eliminator on May 24 and 25 and the last two games in Ahmedabad.
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