Quote from: Theones on Today at 06:09:01 AM

Quote from: Sithara007 on November 27, 2021, 02:02:02 PM

Popularity has nothing to do with it. Look at sports like Baseball and American football. Leagues like MLB and NFL are among the richest in the world. Let's have a 4-month window for the IPL, so that it generates the maximum revenues. The remaining 8 months can be provided to other franchise leagues, ICC tournaments and bilateral tours. At this point, the IPL is much more profitable than any of the other options. So ideally the ICC should allow it to expand. I would suggest a 20-team tournament spanning over 4 months.

But you are ignoring one key factor, the IPL is BCCI and Indian government centric its not a neutral entity like ICC. They have banned complete Pakistan from IPL and also threats anyone who don't follow what they say. Even Aussies don't sledge Kohli and other Indian players anymore in order to secure there contracts. 4 months for IPL players need one month of rest also. So there is not much for ICC events and other leagues.

BCCI is independent entity, ICC doesn't allow government interference in cricket not even indirectly. Zimbabwe board faced a ban because of this. Banning Pakistani players from the IPL wasn't Gov's decision but BCCI and franchise, especially franchise considering BCCI allowed Pakistani players to put their names at the auction but after 26/11 terrorist attack, every franchise boycotted them for the right reasons.

Speaking of sledging you might want to do a bit of study about how Australian cricket works in general. May be watch "The Test" series (episode 3rd and 4th regarding Kohli). Last time whole Australian squad and crowd sledge him in Australia was 2014, he went to score 4 daddy hundreds in a single series. Kohli vs Johnson was a big rivalry back then, Johnson still pissed at kohli.