DesiMag: ITV wins Indian Premier League UK rights 

ITV wins Indian Premier League UK rights
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Desimag / Sports on 10 March, 2010 11:48:00
 
The series, starting on March 12, will feature seven England stars this year
after Eoin Morgan joined Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Dimitri Mascarenhas,
Ravi Bopara, Graham Napier and Owais Shah, when the 23-year-old Dublin-born
batsman was snapped up during January's auction for £134,000 by Royal
Challenger Bangalore.Matt Smith will pair up with Bollywood actress Mandira Bedi
to front the coverage on ITV4, after the commercial public service broadcaster
snapped up the rights on a nominal fee, which were available following the
collapse of the Setanta Sport network.
'Fans in the UK - this is what you have been waiting for. Today we have signed
IPL to be shown on ITV, the biggest and best TV platform in UK,' said IPL
commisioner Lalit Modi, posting in social networking site Twitter.