Indian Street Premier League

The Indian Street Premier League (ISPL) is a T10 tennis ball cricket league held in India, founded in 2024. The league aims to help uncover emerging cricketing talent, with matches played using tennis balls. Actor Salman Khan has been a brand ambassador of ISPL since 2025. He is also the owner of the league's Delhi franchise.

History

The ISPL was inspired by a cricket talent hunt which took place in 2021 in the Dharavi slums, with the idea being to help poorer athletes have a chance to play professional cricket. Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has been named as the core committee member of the tournament alongside BCCI treasurer Ashish Shelar, Amol Kale & Suraj Samat who is the League Commissioner and Core Committee Member of the Indian Street Premier League (ISPL) Former India national cricket team head coach Ravi Shastri has been appointed as the chief mentor of the tournament.

The first season was held in March 2024 at Dadoji Kondadev Stadium, Maharashtra. It had an overall viewership of 11 million, and attendance of 500,000. The winners of the first season were Tiigers of Kolkata while the Season 2 in Year 2025 was won by Majhi Mumbai owned by Amitabh Bachchan.

The ISPL has announced plans to start a 6-team Middle East edition in the future.

The second season was held in January and February 2025.

Organisation

Player acquisition

The player auction for the 2024 season was held on 25 February 2024. In which, 96 players were selected from a pool of 350 players. Each team had a total salary cap of . A total of was spent on the players selected.

Prize money

The inaugural ISPL season offered the champions with , and the runners-up with .

Rule variations

ISPL matches play under T10 rules with these changes:

Instead of a coin toss, the team captains stand opposite each other and walk directly towards each other, each step from heel-to-toe. The team captain who steps on the other team captain's foot wins the toss.
Each squad in the ISPL can have a maximum of 18 players, including at least two U-19 players and two players from each zone (North, East, South, West, and Central).
There is a mandatory powerplay during the first two overs of each innings, where only two fielders are allowed outside the 30-yard circle, while three fielders are allowed outside of the circle in the batting powerplay. An optional one-over batting powerplay may be taken between the third and ninth over.
Two overs in each inning have to be bowled with a tape ball instead of a tennis ball.
One 50-50 must be declared by the batting team in an inning. This involves the batting team stating the number of runs they believe they will score in the next over, with a minimum of 16. The batting team picks out of a selection of five of the bowling team's bowlers. If the batting team scores the predicted number of runs or higher, 150% of the runs scored will be added to their score. If they do not, 50% of the runs scored will be added to their score.
A six which leaves the field area and lands amongst the spectators scores nine runs.

Teams

A bid of was made for the six teams, with Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar having the highest bid of for the Srinagar based team.

Seasons

Broadcasting

Star Sports is the broadcasting partner of the league, while JioHotstar is the digital streaming partner.