Which of these countries has not hosted the IPL cricket tournament?
Australia
The Indian Premier League (IPL), is a professional men’s Twenty20 cricket league, contested by ten teams. Out of the ten, seven are based in Indian cities and three in Indian states. The league was founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. It is usually held between Match and May every year and has an exclusive window in the ICC Future Tours Programme.
Australia has not hosted an IPL cricket tournament till now. In 2010, the IPL became the first sporting event in the world to be broadcast live on YouTube. The brand value of IPL in 2019 was ₹47,500 crore (US$5.9 billion), according to Duff & Phelps. In 2015, as per BCCI, the 2015 IPL season contributed ₹1,150 crores (US$140 million) to the GDP of the Indian economy. The 2020 IPL season set a massive viewership record with 31.57 million average impressions and with an overall consumption increase of 23 percent from the 2019 season.
There have been fifteen seasons of the IPL tournament. The current IPL title holder franchise is Gujarat Titans, winning the 2022 season.
As of the 2018 season, Hotstar holds worldwide streaming rights of the IPL. In the United States, the IPL is also streamed on ESPN+, a sister to Star Sports and Hotstar via The Walt Disney Company.
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