Never mind they lost out on the field but off it, Kolkata Knight Riders have raked in big bucks - the Indian Premier League (IPL) Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi tells CNN-IBN.

Almost two days since the pulsating final, the IPL fever still rules. And the man of the moment is not Yusuf Pathan or Shane Watson, but Lalit Modi. His brainchild - the IPL - broke television rating records and the profits from the league is just mind-boggling. And he reveals that Shah Rukh Khan is laughing all the way to the bank.

The season will come but not right away. We will take a few years to plan that out. We need to work with the ICC and all the member countries to find a slot for it. But the second season won't be a full-blown season as you see it right now. The first season being a league season, the second season might be a knockout season. But it is all to be discussed and finalised and these are just some of the ideas that we have in our hand.

There is a trading window that is going to come up and in the trading window the owners and the players get together and decide