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Or, as its Spanish originators know it, Pepe el Trompeta of Paso Doble fame. From a tune that was part of a Spanish music
composition popularised by French DJ-producer John Revox, the IPL's trumpet tune has become the go-to for DJs at every
other stadium, apart from being transformed into the casual fan's ringtone of choice. A peppy piece of music without any
linguistic affiliations, the tune is now played at most limited-overs international fixtures and franchise T20s the world over.

Umpire Simon Fry models the umpire cam • Getty Images

Helmet cams, umpire cams and spider cams

While the IPL cannot claim to have introduced any of these sports-broadcast innovations, it can, at the least, boast the
bragging rights for having revolutionised the way cricket is viewed in the drawing room. The spidercam, came to India via the
Indian Cricket League, whereas the helmet cam found its way into the game about 45 years after American sport had
introduced it. Regardless of their context of origin, these bits of remodelled video-recording equipment provide breathtaking
live shots of what may be otherwise deemed routine occurrences in a cricket field. Run-out decisions and emphatic shots
down the ground look more real than ever before, courtesy the cameras attached to the umpire's hat that follow the
movement of their eyes and give the TV viewer a whole new perspective on close calls.

Maximum

Another of IPL's additions to the cricket vocabulary, this Latin term, previously only a favorite of math nerds working out
calculus, made its way into the mainstream to describe sixes. After a few seasons with different sponsor plugs, TV
commentators have now come to apply it to sixes of all manners and distances. The word, an embodiment of the IPL's
success in wedding commercialism with hyperbole, perfectly corresponds to the inversely-proportional relationship between
shrinking sizes of boundaries in the modern-day game and the hunt for new philological varieties of existing cricketing
terminology.

Fan umpires

In a move to "increase involvement of viewers", the think-tanks behind the showpiece event, came up with an innovation in
2016 that allowed fans in the stands to express their views on decisions referred to the third umpire. As part of this exercise,
fans could participate in the decision-making - albeit only to the extent of holding placards that carried 'out' and 'not out' -
while letting the cameras pan around and show the most animated ones on the screen. Given that the decision of the umpires
was final and binding regardless of the fans' verdict, the hype around this innovation quietened as the season progressed.
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