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$225m base price for two new IPL franchises

Cruxdude

International Debutant
Cricketing life is going to be horrible in the coming years. 94 IPL games is twice as long as it should be. No one in the BCCI has heard the saying "Too much of anything is bad for your health".
 

G.I.Joe

International Coach
haha, love this comment: Posted by IndianCricLover on (December 18 2009, 05:48 AM GMT)

Wow 10 teams in IPL.. Why doesn't BCCI think of holding 10tests in a year??
 

Quaggas

State Captain
Withing 10-20 years: 30 teams (one of which to be based in Bangladesh), 162 games/team/season/year + a postseason, and the final to be called the World Series.
 

trapol

U19 12th Man
Dont forget it will be played in conferences and i for one cant wait

The death of Test cricket is imminent
 

Cruxdude

International Debutant
Test match will not lose out. IPL will run a short race and fall flat on its face because of greed.
 

Jungle Jumbo

International Vice-Captain
I don't think the usual 'overkill' idea will apply to the IPL. If it gets to the point where there are ten teams, playing each other home and away (i.e. a genuine league), there will only be a consolidation of local support. At the moment fans largely go to see the spectacle of a Twenty20 game, whereas once it becomes more established, they will become fans of their local franchise. The individual game will become less significant (and in the eyes of the traditionalist, more monotonous), but the fortunes of the time over time will become more pronounced.

Look at baseball - 160 games per season. The IPL will never stretch to anywhere near those proportions, but it shows that a long season does not necessarily equate with overkill.

EDIT: Just seen Quagga's post... TBH could see a Bangladeshi franchise in ten years' time.
 
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brockley

International Captain
The indians won't care 95 % of them are watching it.
Question is can either 2 sides be competitive,i heard the 8 franchises get to keep their best players.
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Test match will not lose out. IPL will run a short race and fall flat on its face because of greed.
same thing was said about ODIs
And they were wrong to say it, because ODIs have never been over-scheduled to this extent.

That's not to mention that there are many people who have been saying for the last 3-4 years that ODIs have run their course and will soon die-off.
 

G.I.Joe

International Coach
Look at baseball - 160 games per season. The IPL will never stretch to anywhere near those proportions, but it shows that a long season does not necessarily equate with overkill.
Of course, its overkill. Unlike cricketers, baseballers don't have to go globetrotting on prolonged tours representing the US of A.
 

Quaggas

State Captain
Of course, its overkill. Unlike cricketers, baseballers don't have to go globetrotting on prolonged tours representing the US of A.
What's the likelihood of international games being reduced to A-teams at the Olympics (cf US' basketball), at the extreme? Money talks quite loudly.
 

G.I.Joe

International Coach
What's the likelihood of international games being reduced to A-teams at the Olympics (cf US' basketball), at the extreme? Money talks quite loudly.
There will always be teams undertaking tours though. International basketball games are most probably nowhere near as successful as a test + ODI series between two good teams. CA, CSA, ECB etc get nothing from the IPL, and they have model thats stood the test of time for taking care of their finances, unlike international basketball. It doesn't make sense for them to stand back and abandon the current model for a mega IPL. Modi is trying his hardest to create such a scenario, but the other boards aren't dense enough to hedge their all their bets with the Champions League offshoot. International cricket will be fine. Its Indian cricket that needs to worry for its misplaced sense of priorities.
 

Quaggas

State Captain
There will always be teams undertaking tours though. International basketball games are most probably nowhere near as successful as a test + ODI series between two good teams. CA, CSA, ECB etc get nothing from the IPL, and they have model thats stood the test of time for taking care of their finances, unlike international basketball. It doesn't make sense for them to stand back and abandon the current model for a mega IPL. Modi is trying his hardest to create such a scenario, but the other boards aren't dense enough to hedge their all their bets with the Champions League offshoot. International cricket will be fine. Its Indian cricket that needs to worry for its misplaced sense of priorities.
Agree re basketball, and the reduction to Olympic games is ultra extreme.

The takeover would have to be incentive compatible, at least initially. Later on, there may no longer be a grim Nash strategy for the boards to use. For example, could the IPL start owning "feeder teams" in foreign countries at some point? Start with the weaker countries, and spread out.

Danger for the boards is that the good players go where the money is, leaving A/B/C-teams for the international tours. Right now, the BCCI wouldn't let the IPL have that kind of power, but eventually the tail may wag the dog.

The other question is what kind of rents foreign stars get the IPL long run, esp if the "international sheen" wears thin. For a lot of fans the interest in cricket is linked to "national" rivalries, but the IPL has probably already taken care of most of that with it's city/state model.
 

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