Apple CEO Tim Cook lands in Kanpur to watch IPL encounter

Kanpur: Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook landed here to get a taste of an IPL cricket match between Gujarat Lions and Kolkata Knight Riders, here this evening on invitation from League chairman Rajeev Shukla.

“I had personally invited Cook to watch an IPL match and I am glad that he has accepted my invitation,” Shukla told PTI today.

The Apple CEO is on a four-day visit to India where he is expected during which he is expected to meet to meet a host of political leaders, industrialists and top celebrities

The 55-year-old Cook landed in Mumbai and paid a visit to the famous Siddhivinayak Temple.

He had also dropped in at a private party organised by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who is also the owner of Kolkata Knight Riders.