As of now it's not easy for sony sports to take media rights of ipl. Because they have already tooked so many rights like bbl, cpl and most important is Olympic. But only zee and sony merge can help sony to took ipl rights. But somehow I am sure that sony will have ipl rights because at the same time there is icc events media right auction so star don't want to loose icc rights. And if star sports takes these both rights then it's very interesting to see how they present these both.