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Kerala Blasters Football Club is an Indian professional football team based in Kochi, Kerala that competes in the Indian Super League.

The team was founded on 27 May 2014 by former Indian cricket captain Sachin Tendulkar as one of the initial teams in the Indian Super League, after Tendulkar, along with Prasad V Potluri, won the rights to the Kochi franchise.

Prasad V Potluri sold his shares to a consortium including Telugu actors Chiranjeevi and Akkineni Nagarjuna.

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch with a wicket (a set of three wooden stumps) at each end.

One team bats, attempting to score as many runs as possible, whilst their opponents field.

Each phase of play is called an innings.

After either ten batsmen have been dismissed or a fixed number of overs have been completed, the innings ends and the two teams then swap roles.

The winning team is the one that scores the most runs, including any extras gained, during their innings.

Malayalam cinema is the Indian film industry based in the southern state of Kerala, dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language.

Although the industry's gross box-office is smaller, when compared to larger market driven Indian industries such as Hindi cinema, Telugu cinema, and Tamil cinema, Malayalam films have gained unique recognition in world cinema for their technical finesse and craft.

Malayalam films are released in India, and a handful of them have been released in the United States, Australia, Germany, the UK and the Persian Gulf.

Works such as Marana Simhasanam and Vanaprastham were screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during April and May of every year by franchise teams representing Indian cities.

The league was founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007.

The title sponsor of the IPL in 2016 was Vivo Electronics, thus the league is officially known as the Vivo Indian Premier League.

The current IPL title holders are Sunrisers Hyderabad.

The Indian Super League (ISL) is a men's professional football league in India.

The league is officially named the Hero Indian Super League for sponsorship reasons.

Currently not a part of the Indian football pyramid, the league serves as one of the top tournaments in India, along with the domestic I-League.

The league runs from October to early December, with a finals series determining the champion in mid-December.