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Kerala to host India’s pioneering IPL-type boat race championships

Kochi, Aug 8 (UNI) Kerala Tourism is all set to host the country’s first-ever boat racing patterned on the IPL format of cricket, as the Champions Boat League (CBL) beginning this weekend will have nine teams vying for top honours and prize monies totaling Rs 5.9 crore at the three-month event scheduled across the state.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar will be the star presence at the championship’s opening leg that will be flagged off by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at the sprawling Punnamada Lake in Alappuzha, 50 km south of this city.
The boat league, with eleven more races staggered over the intervening weekends, will conclude in Kollam on November 1 (Kerala’s Formation Day) alongside the famed Nehru Trophy Boat Race.
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