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Google will be showing this year’s Indian Premier League season on YouTube. The first match tonight will be the Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders in Mumbai at 8pm IST.

Cricket is one of, if the the most popular sport in the world. And, The IPL season is onf of the biggest cricket events around. How can a sport not be popular when it has terms like “five-fers”, the “flippers and floaters”, the “half-yorkers”, slow sweeps, and googly. Just like your favorite sports channel the YouTube IPL channel has three main sections:

• Today’s Matches: This is where you can watch streamed matches as they happen. (Note that the stream will be delayed by a few minutes.) Click through at any time to see the match scorecard.
• Recent Matches: Catch up any time on the full action of matches that have already happened. Watch Sachin cream the ball through the covers, Warney taking his latest wicket and more.
• Highlights: If you’re short on time, check in here for short videos of player interviews, match highlights, greatest plays and more.

Of course you can also get social with it by using the on page twitter gadget or just use the tag #youtube_ipl