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Yeah this space is going to change drastically but after 4-5 years during next IPL media rights deal.
The way these franchises are expanding their footprints it seems they will now compete with each other for fixed 4-5 months every year and seriously trying to tap every new market.
Still it will take a long time for other franchise cricket to compete with IPL. Bilateral and trilateral series are already being less frequent. I reckon they will completely end in a few years time. Only ICC trophies will happen for different formats of cricket. This is what has been happening in football for a long time now the same will happen in cricket too.
I didn't mean to indicate that these new tournaments will compete with IPL. I was pointing fingers only towards Franchise such as MI, CSK, DC etc as these guys taking positions in every new league cricket so technically play each other for 4-5 months, starting with CPL, South African, Uae and then in IPL itself.
There is no competition for IPL as it is already miles ahead.
Yes, every cricketing league right now is far away from the IPL league. For now more efforts have been taken from different organising countries to make cricket more popular. At some point this franchise based cricket will serve as a problem for the ODI and test cricket. In coming days we can see schedules being adjusted against the leagues and not on the bilateral series.