What if: IPL had started in 2000

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How different would the IPL have been had it started in 2000?

#7 No Ambani, no Preity Zinta and the franchise names

Zinta would not have been the owner of KXIP

It would have been pretty interesting to see who the owners of the IPL teams would have been at that point of time. While we wouldn’t put it beyond Shah Rukh Khan to be there, the presence of the Ambanis in Indian sports would have remained doubtful. Preity Zinta at that point in time was an unknown and one can’t fathom to see her in the stands cheering on her side.

And if we are to speculate who those guys would be – it would make some amusing reading. With No. 1 and Khiladi series being all the rage at that time, actors like Govinda and Akshay Kumar could have easily ventured into the league.

A team owned by Govinda could have easily be named Delhi No. 1 or would you care for some Chennai Khiladis. With Raja Hindustani doing so well at the box office, one could actually have seen the name of the Mumbai franchise be Mumbai Hindustanis.

And if the man with 2.5 kilo hand would have got himself involved, we might even be thinking along the lines of Sunny’s Hyderabad.

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