What if: IPL had started in 2000

#6 Wills IPL?

Wills were the prime sponsor of the Indian cricket team two decades ago

If you are a kid of the 90s, you would remember the sign of “Wills”, the famous cigarette brand being the main sponsor for India for many a year. In fact, Wills was the principal sponsor of the 1996 World Cup and it was only in 2004 that the Indian government finally passed a bill to ban all forms Tobacco advertisements.

Thus, it would not have been at all unsurprising to see Wills as the primary sponsor of the IPL at some point in time. Accompanied by some ads on people happily smoking? You never know.