90 Matches in IPL 4 - WTF

The addition of two more teams will mean 14 more matches per franchise which increases the overall tally of home-and-away games from 49 to 81.

Add to it the knock out games and the IPL is likely to see a whopping 90-odd matches from 2011 onwards.

The IPL stands to face the risk of having to play three matches per day which in turn will see the games beginning at noon and going on till 11 in the night.

As it is, those in the television industry agree that matches played at 4 pm in the first two years of IPL did not rake in the same TRPs as matches played at 8 pm, prime time. "Now, with matches beginning at noon, the TRPs are bound to dip further," says an industry expert.