Do you know who started the IPL?

 Indian Premier league (IPL).

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during March or April and May of every year by eight teams representing eight different cities in India.

The league was founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2008. The IPL has an exclusive window in ICC Future Tours programme.

The IPL is the most attended cricket league in the world and in 2014 ranked sixth by average attendance among all sports leagues. 

In 2010, the IPL become the first sporting event in the world to be broadcast live on YouTube. 

The brand value of IPL in 2019 was ₹475 billion (US$6.7 billion), according to Duff and Phelps. According to BCCI, the 2015 IPL season contributed ₹11.5 billion (US$160 million) to the GDP of the Indian Economy.

1. Countries - India.
   
   
2. Administrator - BCCI.
   
   
3. Format - T20.
   
   
4. First edition - 2008.
   
   
5. Tournament format - Double round-robin league and playoffs.
   
   
6. Number of teams - 8.
   
   
7. Current champion (2020) - Mumbai Indians (4th title).
   
   
8. Most successful - Mumbai Indians (4 titles).
   
   
9. Most runs - Virat Kohli (5412).
   
   
10. Most wickets - Lasith Malinga (170).
    

There have been twelve seasons of the IPL tournament. The current IPL title holders are the Mumbai Indians, who won the 2019 season.

Who started the IPL?

Lalit Kumar Modi (born 29 November 1963) is a fugitive Indian businessman and cricket administrator. He was the first Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian premier League (IPL), and ran the tournament for three years until 2010.