Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Indian imperialism, which is happening with the leagues that they’re setting up around the world. Totally. I think four of the six major league cricket teams in the US have IPL ownership. I think all of the South African teams have IPL team affiliation or ownership. It feels like the Big Bash League in Australia is the only T20 league around the world that doesn’t have any ties to the IPL. And I think that’s just simply because it was set up around the same time, or maybe even slightly earlier than the IPL. But yeah, I think that’s the other path that IPL could come to the US. One is the NFL playbook of you had just match times, you stage some matches here, you try and drum up interest in the main teams in India. The other path, and maybe you marry this with the second window idea, is because the season’s short, you keep the season short in India and then you have the same players with effectively the same organizations come over here in the fall or at a different time of the year, and stage another tournament here with US-based city teams.…

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