Indiantelevision.com Team

(12 April 2008 9:30 pm)

NEW DELHI: The Indian Premier League (IPL) team franchisees are in a marketing overdrive. With the league set to kick off on 18 April, Bollywood stars have got into the act.

After Shah Rukh Khan, it is Preity Zinta's turn to promote her Mohali team KingsXIPunjab. A step in this direction: Zinta and Australian speedster Brett Lee make themselves present to personally sell tickets with their autographs.

The tickets start as low as Rs 50 and move in the range of Rs 250, Rs 750, Rs 2000, Rs 3000 and Rs 7000. Seats in the North Pavilion will cost Rs 3000 while the student community can buy a ticket for as low as Rs 50. To grab a seat at the Pavilion Terrace, one will have to shell out Rs 2000 and for the A/c lounge Rs 7000.

KingsXIPunjab coach Tom Moody was also present. Tickets will also be available online at www.ticketpro.in and at Baskin Robbins, Planet M and Future Group's Pantaloon Factory, LeeCooper and Big Bazaars outlets across major cities like Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Amritsar apart from the box office of the PCA Stadium.

Zinta said, "It is great to see so many people turning up to buy tickets and joining us to support and cheer their team – KingsXIPunjab. Not only that, this is also an effort towards attracting new audiences to come and experience the excitement and thrill of this great game."

KingsXIPunjab is part of the eight competing teams promoted by the IPL. It is held and promoted by a consortium which includes Zinta and Industrialists Ness Wadia, Karan Paul and Mohit Burman. The team will be led by Yuvraj Singh, who is also the icon player.

The team is a mix of leading national and international players like Brett Lee, Irfan Pathan, Sree Santh, Piyush Chawla, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardane, Romesh Powar, James Hopes, VRV Singh, Kyle Mills, Luke Pomersvack, Uday Kaul, Yash Gandhi, Tanmay Srivastava, Karan Goel, Ajitesh Agral, Simon Katach, Sunny Sohal, Pankaj Dharmani, Sahil Kukreja, and Wilken Mota.