I broke every rule in the book that day: Lalit Modi on first-ever IPL match
Talking about the first-ever IPL match on April 18, 2008, former IPL Chairman Lalit Modi said, "Everything was dependent on that one game. I broke every rule in the book that day." He revealed he signed an exclusive deal with Sony but opened the signal for all. "If the first game had flopped, I was dead," he added.