India, May 22 -- If Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal, chairman of the Vedanta Group, succeeds in the near future, the Indian Premier League (IPL) is going to get much bigger. Agarwal, born in Patna in 1954, has proposed that there should be an IPL franchise from Bihar as well.

Only four years ago, two new franchises -- Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants -- had been added to the high-profile league. Bihar is one of the most populous states in India and just on that basis deserves IPL representation.

Agarwal wrote a post in Hindi on X on Friday, stressing his case by invoking the names of Ishan Kishan (who plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL), teenage star Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (who plays for Rajasthan Royals) and Sakib Hussain (w...