The Board of Control for Cricket in India has sent a legal notice to Australia’s podcast channel (The Grade Cricketer) and got all the videos related to IPL 2025 removed. The podcasters themselves revealed this. The BCCI asked this podcast channel to remove all the videos related to the coverage of IPL 2025.
The Grade Cricketer channel’s podcasters Sam Parry and Ian Higgins said that on April 26, they received a legal notice sent by BCCI and IPL, after which all IPL related videos have been removed from their channel.
In his podcast on April 28, Sam Parry said that you must have noticed that we have removed every video related to the coverage of this year’s IPL 2025 from our YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube Shorts and X (Twitter). Nobody did this but we did it ourselves. We received a polite legal notice to remove our content of this season’s cricket tournament.
The podcasters ran an IPL show called The Big IPL Breakfast. In this show, he told everything about the tournament. In the show, he used pictures of the IPL match in his video.
What do IPL’s media guidelines say?
According to BCCI guidelines, pictures of the match can be used for editorial purpose, but not for ‘commercial purpose’. According to the report of Sydney Morning Herald news outlet, the show used Indian grocery app Big Basket as a sponsor, due to which this action was taken.
However, podcasters Sam Parry and Ian Higgins assured their fans that the coverage will continue, but this time it will not have suspicious elements.
The show named ‘The Big IPL Breakfast’ comes in the morning on The Grade Cricketer channel. Now after receiving the notice, the name of this show will also be changed. Parry told that the new name of this show could be The Big Cricket Tournament Breakfast. Let us tell you that Parry and his partner Higgins are coming to India for the live show this week.
