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Started by the Indian Cricket Board in 2008 as an ordinary T20 series with 8 teams, the IPL has gone through various evolutions in the last 15 years and has emerged as the No. 1 T20 series in the world today. Most of the matches held in it are thrillers and earn thousands of crores every year. Therefore, the IPL series has surpassed the ICC World Cups in terms of quality and has made the BCCI a richer board than the ICC that conducts international competitions.
BCCI is therefore working on changes in the ICC schedule to further expand the IPL to 94 matches from 2024 onwards. Therefore, former players and experts from England believe that the IPL series, which has emerged as a determining factor in the world cricket, is a danger to international cricket. So far, the owners who have teams in the IPL series have bought their branch teams in T20 series held in countries like West Indies, United States, South Africa.
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In particular, the T20 series, which has been newly launched this year in Dubai and South Africa, will be held simultaneously in January 2023. At the same time, Big Bash T20 series is being held in Australia for the past several years. Also, Indian IPL team owners have bought 3 teams for the series in Dubai and all 6 teams for the series in South Africa.
The problem here is that since the Dubai and South Africa series is held in January, Australia and England players prefer to play in foreign T20 series rather than the T20 series in their country. As a result, the Australian and English boards are blaming the Indian management for the IPL management and the IPL series, which have bought the teams in those series.
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But Indian legend Sunil Gavaskar has questioned why these boards are protesting against the IPL series when India has not raised any objection when the Australia and England boards are conducting the Big Bash and Hundred series. He talked about this in a recent interview.
“Don’t interfere in our cricket and tell us what to do instead of focusing on developing your cricket. We know what we need to do to grow our cricket better than you do. It is very sad to read the news that IPL is disrupting the matches of international cricket teams. “The old dictators (Australia&England)” began lamenting that the IPL was the reason, especially when Dubai and South Africa emerged in the T20 series.
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The England Board has created a new schedule for the “Hundred” series when their team plays international matches. Similarly, Australians also make their players play in the Big Bash series. But at the same time, they are worried that their national players will ignore their T20 series and take part in it due to the T20 series being held in Dubai and South Africa,” he said.
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And Sunil Gavaskar said that in the period like 1950, only England and Australia boards were rich, India, which was struggling for money at that time, has now progressed to rule the world with the IPL series and has severely criticized those old dictators. The following is what he said about whether he should be a slave now as then.
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“Think back to those times when India was not an attractive team in terms of money. India’s overseas tours between those old powers (Australia & England) will be several years apart. India visited Australia for the first time in 1947/48. But do you know when the 2nd time went? It was 1967/68. Yes sir there was 20 years between those 2 tours. The next was in 1977/78. It also went to England after a long gap like 1936 and 1946. World War II from 1939 to 1945 may also have played a role. Then India went to England in 1952, 1959, 1967.”
“It was only after other cricket boards realized that being invited to the MCC chairman’s box was not helping to promote their cricket that after a gap of many years, new administrators with no inferiority complex finally arrived. It was only after that that the tour of India started happening once in every 4 years.
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Now the same old dictators want India to come to their country every year. Because they understood that playing with the Indian team is more profitable than playing against each other,” he said.
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