#ChinesePremierLeague trends on Twitter after BCCI retains VIVO as the title sponsors for IPL 2020

Over the last six months or so, there has been a lot of commotion regarding the Indian Premier League (IPL). The 2020 edition of the T20 event was set to start on March 29. However, the COVID-19 pandemic ended up playing spoilsport and the tournament had to be postponed for an indefinite time. For the time being, India is third in the list of coronavirus-affected cases worldwide.

As far as the IPL is concerned, after a lot of deliberations, the tournament had to be moved out of India bearing in mind the current scenario. The IPL will now be taking place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from September 19 to November 10. It will be a 53-day affair and precautionary measures will be in place keeping in mind the safety of the players and the others.

BCCI takes a major decision on IPL

In the meantime, the world’s richest cricket board also took a major decision. On Sunday, August 2, the board decided to retain all the sponsors of the IPL, including the Chinese brands. It means that VIVO, a Chinese mobile company, will remain as the title sponsors for the upcoming tournament. The decision was taken in IPL Governing Council meeting on Sunday.

“All I can say is that all our sponsors are with us. Hopefully, you can read between the lines,” a Governing Council member was quoted as saying in Times Now. Back in 2017, the VIVO signed a deal of five years with the BCCI as the major sponsor of the league worth Rs 2,199 crores. However, BCCI’s latest call hasn’t gone down well with the netizens by any stretch of the imagination.

A few weeks ago, 20 Indian soldiers lost their lives in a cross-border fight with the Chinese troopers. Thereafter, the Indian government banned 59 Chinese applications, including Tik-Tok and Helo. Calls for removing VIVO as IPL’s title sponsors also did the rounds. However, that didn’t happen.

After BCCI’s call, a hashtag by the name of ‘Chinese Premier League’ started doing the rounds on social media. In their tweets, the netizens didn’t turn any stones down in slamming the BCCI.

Here’s how the netizens reacted: –

When China is refusing to even discuss Pangong Tso standoff in disengagement talks, then we are about to celebrate IPL having all Chinese sponsors? Then it's better to call it as #ChinesePremierLeague pic.twitter.com/8N9UbDiTIv

— Chinmoyee (@chinmoyee5) August 3, 2020

#ChinesePremierLeague
Indians shud boycott Chinese products/apps in order to become आत्मनिर्भर. However @BCCI continues IPL's ChineseSponsor Vivo..Why does #BCCI need to get sponsorship frm China tht killed IndianSoldiers recently?
Is the honor of the #India secondary to wealth? pic.twitter.com/LzB83ggx35

— Sanatan Women (@SanatanWomen) August 4, 2020

Vivo should be banned from IPL #ChinesePremierLeague

— mohdsaadshamim (@mohdsaadshamim) August 3, 2020

BCCI treasurer Arun Dhumal said :-

As long as chines companies are allowed to do business in India, there is no harm in them sponsoring an Indian brand like the IPL.

My question is, who is allowing Chinese companies to do business in India?#ChinesePremierLeague pic.twitter.com/W43Wfh2wMO

— Manish Ray (@ManishRay01) August 3, 2020

Chinese app ban is only for comman man.

Vivo, a Chinese company the title sponsor of IPL is still not banned.

Why the hypocrisy?#ChinesePremierLeague

— Spirit of Congress (@SpiritOfCongres) August 3, 2020

When so many Indian businesses are willingly incurring huge losses to deny China access to India's market

What forced the richest cricket body in the world to accept Chinese investment?

This insensitive action will weaken the action to weaken china

#ChinesePremierLeague pic.twitter.com/T1JDY2YjfP

— Ayush (@Ayush94565177) August 3, 2020

#Boycott_Chinese_IPL

While is whole country is into #BoycottMadeInChina @BCCI made #Chinese @Vivo_India as sponsor #ChinesePremierLeague #BoycottIPL2020RemoveChinese pic.twitter.com/GU1ukfitp1

— Koshur (@LokutMokut) August 4, 2020

I appeal to Sports Minister Shri @RijijuOffice ji to stop the monstrosity of BCCI-IPL being sponsored by Chinese companies. What is the point of banning Tik Tok otherwise ? #ChinesePremierLeague

— Parv thakur with RG (@Parvthakur7) August 4, 2020

IF BCCI IS NOT CONSIDERING ANTI-CHINA SENTIMENTS OF INDIANS AND CONTINUE THEIR SPONSERSHIP WITH VIVO,
THEN I AM NOT WATCHING THIS IPL 2020 SEASON.#BCCI #VIVOIPL #iwillnotwatchipl2020 boycott #chinesepremierleague #indianpremierleague

— Darshan Dilip Davane (@imdavane) August 4, 2020

Undoubtedly #Cricket is all about money first and rest comes later @BCCI have proved it and surprisingly all the national players did not raise their voice for same.#BCCI_चाइनीज़_प्राचार_बन्द_करो #PremierLeague #BoycottIPL #ChinesePremierLeague

— Deepika देश_के_लिए (@Deepika_Devlal) August 4, 2020

Dear @PMOIndia @AmitShah @ianuragthakur @ShuklaRajiv @narendramodi @RahulGandhi Wake up & stop the #ChinesePremierLeague
#India @sachin_rt @MSDhoni @imVkohli @Jaspritbumrah93 @ImRaina @AmitShah @SGanguly99 @narendramodi @PMOIndia @ashwani_mahajan @BCCI
#Boycott_Chinese_IPL pic.twitter.com/phP7gCNAx4

— Sanjay (@sanjaylazar) August 4, 2020

BCCI/IPL governing council has decided to retain all sponsors including the big Chinese ones.. @AshokKhemka_IAS #ipl #ipl2020 #ChinesePremierLeague #IPL2020 # pic.twitter.com/dikG51UusC

— Memewebbie (@memewebbie) August 4, 2020