BCCI organizes opening ceremonies at all 13 locations in IPL 2025: Report

Last updated:March 18, 2025, 23:50 is

According to a report, the celebration on Saturday, March 22nd, will begin with an opening ceremony in Eden Gardens in Kolkata before the game between KKR and RCB.

BCCI organizes opening ceremonies in all locations to celebrate the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League. (Credit: PTI)

The 2025 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will start on Saturday (March 22nd) in Kolkata with a match between defending Champions Kolkata Knight Riders and Virat Kohlis Royal Challengers Bengaluru. The match between the two teams, which was also seen on April 18, 2008 in the first IPL match, is to take place in Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

Before the IPL 2025 season, it was reported that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to celebrate the 18 years of IPL, this year, organized special opening ceremonies at all 13 event locations this year.

According to a report in sports star on Tuesday (March 18), in which a source quoted with the words: “The celebration will begin with an opening ceremony with Bollywood superstar and celebrities from the music industry in the Eden Garden in Kalkutta on March 22nd. passed on with a cultural program with a cultural program.

“We wanted to give the tournament more taste so that the audience gets an impression of the opening ceremony from every event location.

The singer Shreya Ghosal and the Bollywood actress Disha Patani will perform during the opening ceremony in Kolkata on Saturday, in which ICC chairwoman Jay Shah will also take part.

According to the available information, the BCCI is now in the last phases of conversations with some other known artists for the other 12 events.

“The idea is to have a varied pool of Bollywood artists who occur for all programs, and with a limited time between the Innerings, two to three artists could be accommodated for these events,” said the source, adding that the list of artists and celebrities will be completed by Wednesday.

“Since this is done in such a scale for the first time, there are also some logistical problems.

The IPL 2025 matches take place in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, New Chandigarh, Dharamsala, Guwahati and Visakhapatnam.

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Kolkata (Kalkutta), India, India