The Indian Premier League (IPL) is the most popular professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was started in 2008 and this is the fifth season of the game. IPL 2012 is available live on TV as well as online through various options. But in case you are travelling a lot during matches and does not have access to live matches, you can still get updated with the latest scores and also the schedules. Here is the list of top IPL based app for Android, Windows Phone 7 and iOS (iPad and iPhone). Please note that we have covered only few popular apps, there are many other apps related to IPL in the respective app markets.
Android:
1. Official DLF IPL 2012:
This is the official IPL app for Android and it presents up-to-date match scores, schedule by results, fixtures and by team, teams and player profile sections, latest news and Photos during the course of the tournament and also post-match videos from all the games.
2. IPL Live Streaming:
As the name indicates, the app provides you with live streaming of the match on your Android phone. Please note that the phone should support Adobe Flash to get the live coverage.
3. IPL Calendar:
IPL Calendar lets you add the schedule of your favourite team to your preferred calendar. You can set up your own reminder so that you never miss an action-packed game of cricket. The app lets you view games by team, matches or venue. It provides you a quick and easy way to discover the schedule of your favourite team.
4. Cricket IPL 2012:
This is the only app to have the complete statistics about all the players for IPL. The app covers all the cricket matches schedule and team players for IPL 2012.
Windows Phone 7:
1. IPL Indiatimes:
Indiatimes IPL is an intuitive application for all Windows phones. This windows app allows you to browse videos of the Indiatimes IPL channel from YouTube without logging into YouTube. Installing the Indiatimes IPL app in your Windows phone will take you instantly to the video categories of the Indiatimes IPL Channel, eventually playing the selected videos in your Windows phone.
2. IPL 2012 Schedule:
This is basically a schedule based app. It gets the Today’s matches, Upcoming matches, Teamwise matches, Venuewise matches, and full schedule. In Today’s screen , you can select a particular date to get the matches on that date.
3. IPL 2012:
This is probably one of the best apps for IPL on Windows Phone 7. It shows team wise squads for the current season, schedule, allows you to set reminder for your desired matches, allows the user to view the LIVE scores and also keeps you updated with IPL news.
iOS (iPhone/iPad):
1. IPLt20:
This is the official app for iPhone for IPL. The official IPLt20 app brings to you all the exclusive content from DLF IPL 2012, including News, Features, Interviews, Virtual Replay, Live Scores, Fixtures, Team and player information and all the statistics from the tournament.
2. IPL Dugout:
IPL Dugout is a comprehensive IPL application which gives live score updates, schedule of all matches, alerts(Add to calendar), points table and detail scorecards, results of all previous IPL cricket tournaments and latest IPL news and leader boards.
3. IPL Mania for iPad:
This is a dedicated app for iPad users who love to get updated with IPL news. You can get all the information you need about the participating teams, IPL’s Twitter feed and full Schedule of tournament. You can mark a team as favorite to get the reminder before start of its match.
4. IPL 5:
IPL5 shows you the schedule of the upcoming IPL 2012 T20 tournament matches, even when you are offline. It provides you all the information about the IPL matches.
You have surely left no stone upturned to please all the IPL fans. Long live Mumbai Indians.
nice list … good Job Nirmal … this is a good effort for IPL fans