India's billionaire businessman Mukesh Ambani has bought the digital streaming rights of the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament for more than 2.5 billion dollars, leaving behind the world's largest media companies.
Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani has bought all ipl online streaming rights for USD 2.36 billion, bcci sources told news agency AFP in Mumbai on Tuesday, June 14
Television broadcast rights bought by Star India
Indian Premier League matches are the most watched sports competitions in the world, with digital streaming rights now available to Mukesh Ambani. On the contrary, broadcast rights through television of the same tournament will remain with star india, a company owned by the huge American media company Disney, for the next five years

According to bcci, the board of control for cricket in India , both television and digital, these rights have been sold for a total of $5.65 billion. This amount is much higher than the price for which the same rights were sold for five years last time 
The IPL, a tournament played every year of T20 cricket, lasts an average of two months. Last time, both the television and digital rights of the league were bought by Star India for five years, but then $2.55 billion was paid for them. This time the amount is more than double

The extraordinary popularity of IPL

The Indian Premier League is the most popular and shortest format tournament in cricket, with hundreds of millions of fans watching each match in India alone. Internationally too, the number of cricket fans watching every match of this league is in the millions
Mukesh Ambani has bought THE DIGITAL STREAMING RIGHTS of IPL under a joint business venture. In this joint business project, he has included viacom 18, the largest Indian entertainment company, as well as us company Paramount Global and an international investment group behind James Murdoch, son of Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch

Fifteen seasons of IPL have been completed

Ipl started in 2008 as an annual tournament. It was only after its tremendous success that similar domestic T20 League competitions started in other countries of the world. The 15th season of ipl this year had just reached its end
In the first ten years of its launch, the league's television rights were held by sony, the largest media company. Sony wanted to buy these rights this year too but could not succeed.

In addition, Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, an American online trading company that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to buy broadcast rights for football competitions in Europe and the United States, initially expressed interest in buying IPL media rights, but then changed his mind