1 week Ago By Firstpost
The popular cricket podcast The Grade Cricketer has been forced to delete all their videos about the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season after receiving a legal notice from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The podcast, hosted by Australians Sam Perry and Ian Higgins, had been running a daily IPL show called The Big IPL Breakfast since the start of the current season. But now, they have been forced to change the name too.
Perry and Higgins are set to travel to India later this week for three live shows during the tournament. The Grade Cricketer is hugely popular in India and across the globe, with over a million fans tuning in every day to watch their IPL-related content. Over the weekend, the show’s team received a legal letter from the BCCI and IPL authorities.
They were asked to take down hundreds of videos from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and X because the videos had photos and logos from the tournament. The BCCI has reportedly claimed that the podcast was using still images from the IPL for “commercial” use instead of just “editorial” or reporting purposes. This crackdown seems stricter than before because while cricket boards have earlier targeted illegal use of video clips, going after photos like this is a new move.
To avoid any bans or suspensions on their social media accounts, the podcast team decided to remove all their IPL-related videos themselves. Sam Perry explained in his latest YouTube video: “You may have noticed that every single video from our coverage of this year’s big cricket tournament has been removed from YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Facebook, Instagram and X. This is something we’ve done ourselves, it hasn’t been done to us, we have removed these videos.
” “On Saturday evening Australian time we received a very polite legal letter about elements of our content from the cricket tournament we speak to you about pertaining specifically to this season. As a result we decided to take those videos down,” he added. However, Perry said that they would still continue to cover the IPL 2025 regularly, and even more so now because they are traveling to India for their live shows.
“It’s very important to note we’re going to continue to post coverage of the tournament, at the same cadence that we do. In fact, there’s going to be more in the next couple of weeks because we’re going to India. But our approach to content has been consistent for five years, we just now have a deeper understanding of what is and isn’t passing muster.
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