BCCI's red eye amid IPL 2024, warning to players, team and commentators

• BCCI announces guidelines for IPL 2024
  
• BCCI issues warning to players, team and commentators
  
• Action will be taken if pictures are posted from the stadium
  

During IPL 2024, it has been seen that players post their pictures on social media. All the franchises and IPL commentators also share match-related pictures and videos on social media to update their fans. However, now BCCI has decided to impose a ban. Players, teams and commentators must follow certain guidelines for posting.

BCCI issued guidelines

According to a report, BCCI has issued notices to all the commentators, players, IPL owners and social media and content teams associated with the teams. In which they have been instructed not to share any picture or video from the stadium on social media platforms on the day of the match. A former India batsman posted a picture of himself commentating during a game, prompting a protest from the broadcasting rights office. After this incident, the BCCI staff member asked to remove that person from the post immediately.

Heavy fine will be imposed

According to a report, the broadcaster has paid a huge amount for IPL rights. Therefore, commentators cannot post videos or photos on social media on the day of the match. At times commentators went Instagram live or posted photos from the field. This video has received millions of views on social media. Franchises also cannot post videos of live games. She can only post limited photos and give live match updates. If found guilty, the franchisee will be fined.

is being monitored

BCCI has taken a strict stance in this matter and issued a warning to those who violate these rules. The aim is to prevent individuals or teams from gaining social media followers by sharing photos or videos on match days. Apart from this, complaints were also received about some players sharing pictures during the match days and instructions were given to remove them. All the posts of the players are being monitored. According to the report, the IPL team may have to pay a fine of Rs 9 lakh for sharing the video clip of the live game. The television rights of IPL are held by Star India and the digital rights are held by Viacom 18.