Warning Will Robinson

[social]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646624075048185856

IPL, UAE, Saudi, SA etc all with common ownership

Next step is 12 month contracts

If you’re, say, Cameron Green and get offered a 5 year, $50 million contract with the stipulation that you can’t sign a CA contract & must give priority to the franchise then it will be hard to knock back

Can see that this is the future

 

[Molehill]

This smacks of LIV Golf - ignore the legacy and history of the game and just throw stupid amounts of money at players to persuade them to jump ship. They'll need a better front man than Greg Norman for this to be a success.

 

[social]

This smacks of LIV Golf - ignore the legacy and history of the game and just throw stupid amounts of money at players to persuade them to jump ship. They'll need a better front man than Greg Norman for this to be a success.

Cricket is very different to golf in that the majority of a player’s income is from contracts awarded annually

Imagine being in Matt Renshaw’s position

Recently played for Australia, scores 3 hundreds for Australia A but gets passed over for a CA contract

Franchise comes along and offers him life changing money on a multi year deal

Hard to knock back

 

[trundler]

I wouldn't mind it if something like this replaced T20Is.

 

[Athlai]

Isn't it "Danger Will Robinson"?

Please note I've only seen the movie with Matt Le Blanc

 

[slowfinger]

you couldn’t host an IPL in the gulf because the STADIUMS WOULD BE EMPTY

 

[Athlai]

you couldn’t host an IPL in the gulf because the STADIUMS WOULD BE EMPTY

Doesn't matter if there is a TV audience that'd make it worthwhile.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Isn't it "Danger Will Robinson"?

That's right, mods please ban the op

 

[Starfighter]

Isn't it "Danger Will Robinson"?

That was my immediate thought too.

 

[Ali TT]

It could cause a lot of disruption in the medium term but over the long run cricket can only survive as a global sport if there's strong national and local level competition.

 

[Aidan11]

Cricket is getting saturated with T20 tournaments around the world. Not a good thing.

 

[ankitj]

Cricket dying little more every day.

 

[slippy888]

Don't we get enough below par leagues in uae already so why do ipl want to go there

 

[the big bambino]

Isn't it "Danger Will Robinson"?

Please note I've only seen the movie with Matt Le Blanc

Was waiting for Brook’s side to mention this.

 

[slowfinger]

Doesn't matter if there is a TV audience that'd make it worthwhile.

it absolutely matters because the entertainment factor on the TV relies on an atmosphere which is impossible to achieve over there. it’s the reason the gulf could never replace the english football premier league either

 

[Ali TT]

it absolutely matters because the entertainment factor on the TV relies on an atmosphere which is impossible to achieve over there. it’s the reason the gulf could never replace the english football premier league either

Yeah, but the "audiences" gambling on the matches don't need to see a crowd on TV. Tbh they don't even need to see the game at all.

 

[Aidan11]

All these T20 tournaments popping up and yet still only one tournament of The Hundred.

I just don't understand how that hasn't gone global yet. Oh wait...

 

[Athlai]

it absolutely matters because the entertainment factor on the TV relies on an atmosphere which is impossible to achieve over there. it’s the reason the gulf could never replace the english football premier league either

It genuinely doesnt matter. Would be no different to the Pak UAE games

 

[Spark]

If this was two years ago this would be a classic ZIRP but frankly that still applies now. All this **** stinks of pyramid schemes that will inevitably collapse under their own weight. Just have to hope it doesn't take the rest of the sport with it.

 

[Molehill]

it absolutely matters because the entertainment factor on the TV relies on an atmosphere which is impossible to achieve over there. it’s the reason the gulf could never replace the english football premier league either

Again, I'll link it back to LIV Golf. They've got virtually no one attending the tournaments, no serious TV deal and barely anyone bothering to stream it on Youtube. But they don't care, it's just a form of sportswashing. How long LIV survives for, I'm not sure. But it's not a money making venture, it's almost the complete opposite.