Almost every cricketing Country in the world is now organising T20 Cricket leagues to earn more and more profit and to promote their cricketers too.
There are various T20 Cricket Leagues like Indian Premier League, Big Bash League, Caribbean Premier League, Pakistan Super League etc. are the most popular one.
Here we have listed Top 7 T20 Leagues based on their popularity:
1.Indian Premier League
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The Indian Premier League also known as IPL is a professional T20 cricket league in India contested during March to May of every year.
There are a total of eight teams in IPL representing eight different cities in India.
IPL league was founded by BCCI in 2008 and it has an exclusive window in ICC Future Tours Programme.
This tournament has achieved many honours in the last 11 years as its total brand value in 2019 was ₹475 billion.
It has also contributed 11.5 billion to the GDP of the Indian economy in 2015.
Till now, it has successfully hosted 12 seasons which started in 2008 and last season was in 2019.
The inaugural season in 2008 was won by Rajasthan Royals who defeated the Chennai Super Kings by three wickets in the finals.
After that, Deccan Chargers(2009), CSK(2010,2011,2018), Kolkata Knight Riders (2012,2014),Mumbai Indians (2013,2015,2017,2019) and Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2016 won the IPL title.
IPL is based on Double Round Robin League and Playoffs format.
Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings are two of the most successful teams in this league as they have succeeded to win the title multiple times.
This T20 Cricket Leagues consists of Players from across the world which is totally based on the auction.
