Coming soon :ICC Cricket League

What I feel is that IPL will eventually go back to India.But eventually the success of the event in South Africa would be such an eye opener where by you could have the English Premier League for cricket or even bigger an ICC Cricket League.We already have the Pro20 Cricket tournament in South Africa and had the Allen Stanford cup in the west-Indies which are offshoots of this larger idea.May be more and more Cricket boards would offer huge chunks of money to Lalit Modi and the DLP IPL to organize it in their country.England was already a contendor for this years IPL and I see Australia with all the requisite Infrastructure to hold an event of this magnitude.

The IPL is predominantly and Indian event with only 4 Foreign players inside a team and it would make more sense to have more than just 4 international players.You could actually have more than just 4 foreign players.May be Independent clubs would be set up and there would no regulations about which players or the number of players from a particular nationality.Now this could be held yearly in a new country and thus giving a lot of opportunities for the other countries to take part and indulge in the spirit of the game of Cricket and T20.

Thus we could have the Champions league of cricket and the IPL which is more similar to the Football EPL.Champions trophy is designed to have winners of various tourneys come and participate and this is how ICC wants to milk the money from cricket.The official T20 World cup to be held once in 2 years seems another important factor that needs to be accounted for.

However the disadvantages would be the fact that One Day Internationals and test cricket would keep cricketers tied up with national commitments and after all T20 is not a purists game .It would be difficult to get these players time for various commitments to these independent tournaments.Playing only T20 is also not the main aim of any true cricketer and he always dreams to excel at Test Cricket.

So for the time being get your popcorn and pepsi and raise a toast to the IPL.