{"id":1114,"date":"2020-08-06T16:56:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T11:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=29376"},"modified":"2020-08-06T16:56:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T11:26:38","slug":"coca-cola-byjus-likely-to-bid-for-title-sponsors-for-ipl-2020-after-vivos-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/coca-cola-byjus-likely-to-bid-for-title-sponsors-for-ipl-2020-after-vivos-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca-Cola, Byju\u2019s likely to bid for title sponsors for IPL 2020 after Vivo\u2019s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beverage giant <strong>Coca-Cola India<\/strong> and education technology company <strong>Byju\u2019s<\/strong> may join the race for the title sponsorship of the <strong>Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)<\/strong> is planning to invite fresh bids for the tournament\u2019s title sponsorship after Chinese smartphone maker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/a-major-setback-for-bcci-as-vivo-no-longer-the-title-sponsors-for-ipl-2020\/\">Vivo\u2019s exit<\/a> as the main sponsor. Vivo was supposed to pay Rs. 440 crore as part of the sponsorship agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to stay invested in cricket and (are) observing how the situation evolves. We are awaiting more details before taking a decision,\u201d\u00a0Coca-Cola India told the\u00a0Mint.<\/p>\n<p>Byju\u2019s which has recently been in news for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/education\/byjus-to-invest-in-whitehat-jr-a-mumbai-based-startup\/\">proposed investment in coding start-up WhiteHat Jr.<\/a>; has set aside Rs 300 crore for the sponsorship bid, a source told Mint.<\/p>\n<p>This year IPL 2020 is scheduled to happen in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/looking-to-fill-30-50-stadiums-during-2020-ipl-emirates-cricket-board-secretary\/\">UAE<\/a> amid the coronavirus induced lockdown in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beverage giant Coca-Cola India and education technology company Byju\u2019s may join the race for the title sponsorship of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":24246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-coca-cola"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}