I wonder will PSL become a direct rival to IPL in coming year’s, and imagine both being hosted at same time it’ll definitely give player’s a tough choice on which tournament to participate in. Lastly it does seem that Pakistan is bouncing back in the cricket world, and now it’s only a matter of time before they rise up in the ICC table as I see they’re building a good base for their national team.
One is based on draft system and next is based on Auction.
Rivalry or not but auction based system is hard to beat because market based demand plays the big part here and any tom-dick-harry could get easy million dollar if their luck plays out.
Real comparison would be what if IPL is hosted at same time as World Cup and India not playing in the World cup. This would be more interesting considering IPL is about to become bigger after next media rights auction. If BCCI gets lucky then they will earn almost $900M to 1 billion dollar every year just from the IPL, atm they earn about $500-600 million.
You know that it's not gonna happen. I am talking about the IPL being hosted at the same time as the world cup. Do you actually think that India is going to forget about the glory that comes with winning the world cup?
IPL is obviously going to be a lot bigger in terms of money but that's not going to make India host the IPL at the same time as the world cup because they will lose the money that they will gain while the world cup is going on. And I don't think no team or cricket board is stupid enough to play their League instead of the world cup.