A cricket revolution that could see international clubs and players contracted permanently to the Indian Premier League is underway - and it threatens to destroy the sport as we know it. 'If we were able to have X number of contracted players, and were able to use them all in different leagues, I think that would be nirvana. Indian cricket commentator and journalist Harsha Bhogle tweeted that countries like Australia and England, which rely on Indian revenue to survive, would have no choice but to toe the line. After decades of trying to crack the United States market, the US Major League Cricket T20 competition is set to launch in the summer of 2023. 'A franchise-dominated landscape, with yearly ICC tournaments and not much bilateral international cricket or Tests, is coming,' he wrote.

Source: Daily Mail August 02, 2022 07:51 UTC