IPL crackdown: Grade Cricketer takes down hundreds of videos after receiving ‘legal letter’

Indian cricket authorities have clamped down on The Grade Cricketer podcast, compelling the show’s creators to take down every single video they have produced for this year’s Indian Premier League.

The Grade Cricketer’s daily show about the IPL, which has been called “The Big IPL Breakfast”, may now have to be renamed. The show’s hosts Sam Perry and Ian Higgins are due to travel to India for a series of live shows to coincide with the IPL later this week.

Sam Perry and Ian Higgins from The Grade Cricketer. Credit: Seven Network

The producers of the show, which is watched or listened to by an audience of more than a million people in Australia and around the world, received a legal letter from the BCCI and the IPL over the weekend, demanding the removal of photos and logos from hundreds of videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and X.

According to a source with knowledge of confidential discussions, the legal notice was related to claims that Grade Cricketer IPL videos featured still photography shots from the tournament that the BCCI considered to be used for “commercial” rather than “editorial” purposes.

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