IPL and World Cup

The timing of the IPL was perfect. BCCI took the advantage of the fact that India had won the inaugural T20 world cup. I think it would have been difficult for BCCI and Lalit Modi to introduce IPL had the performance of India in the last world cup been similar to this year's world cup.

Was the timing of IPL perfect or the timing of the Indian team's performance?

When the inaugural World cup was held already countries were having domestic T20 tournaments. Its an open secret that India is the biggest market for cricket.So a domestic T20 tournament was round the corner in India taking into consideration the popularity it gained in countries like West Indies & Pakistan. If you remember the match against South Africa where they were chasing 150 odd runs and struggled to even reach the par score to reach the semis.The point which I am trying to make is that BCCI needed to announce the IPL at a point when it will be a sure shot hit. Indians performed well or may be were forced to perform well in the inaugural T20 Worldcup and made life easy for BCCI. The finals with Pakistan was an icing on the cake.

You never know India did well (or were made to do well) in the last world cup to make IPL a hit.