The Board of Control for Cricket in India had signed a 5-year contract with the Chinese firm VIVO for the IPL❀ title sponsorship in 2018. But owing to the sentiments in the country towards China, VIVO decided to withdraw from the contract for this year. The value of the five-year deal was a whopping Rs 2,199 crores.
Since VIVO has backed out of IPL 2020, the BCCI has been in search for a n🐭ew sponsor. Companies like Jio, Coca-Cola and Amazon have been linked with the latest IPL 2020 contract.
Now, surprisingly, Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved has come out in public and declared that they would bid for the IPL title sponsorshipꦯ thi𓂃s year.
Patanjali se🍌lls a wide range of consumer goods like grocery products including biscuits, honey and noodles. According to CLSA and HSBC, Patanjali is the fastest growing FMCG company in India. It is valued at Rs 3,000 crore♏s (equivalent to Rs 35 billion or US$490 million in 2019).
VIVO used to pay around Rs 440 crores per season to BCCI for the IPL titl🅘e sponsorship. But in this current financial situation due to the coronavirus pandemic, BCCI is willing to accept a cut of 50-60%.
According to med༒ia reports, the BCCI will be issuing an Expression of Interest (EOI) on August 10 for the IPL 2020 title sponsorship. The deadline to submit bids by interested companies is August 1🐈8.
Meanwhile, the fans are in splits after knowing about Patanjali bidding for IPL sponsorship, and they have also started imagining things. Memes and jokes are flooded on social media with some taking a hilarious dig at the company’s various products.
IPL, over the years, have had different sponsors for ‘Man of the Match’ and other awards and the netizens have hilariously matched it with Patanjali products.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
please tell me its a joke
— Jamie Alter 🇮🇳 (@alter_jamie)
*Patanjali to consider for title sponsorship*
Cheerleaders will doAgar 4 gaya – Pranayam
6 – surya namaskar
Wicket – kapal bharti
Balkrishnaji will play the DJ in the ground— Rachit Gupta (@Im_RachitGupta)
//twitter.com/Bibhu237/status/1292717746359173125
IPL 2020 will be called as
Baba ramdev :
— Deeksha jain 🇮🇳 (@hungryheart51)
//twitter.com/__Muskurahat__/status/12927ಞ583012✨18766848
I am all for Patanjali sponsoring IPL. I'll do Sirsasana and finally see RCB at the top of the table.
— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats)
Cheerleading in will be like
— A Seeker (@_onewhoseeks)
//twitter.com/Lal_Jethiya/status/129275💞3997🔯023997953
will be called as
Meanwhile foreigner players -:
— M a h i (@rare__legend)
//twitter.com/ishika_bha☂rad/status/1292751398250061824
Le PATANJALI Ball, Bat and stumps for IPL :
— PATHEY ☕ (@paa_they)
This year …..
Baba ramdev …..— Manas Singh || 🇮🇳 (@ManasSi64910205)
Screens in matches gonna light up with 🐭Chyavanpไrash chakka and Savasana sixer in IPL 2020
— Punatomy (@punatomy)
