David Rosenthal: belief

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…The ICL tried this, but the ICL didn’t have Kingdom of Saudi Arabia money. It would be very interesting to see, could you actually just go completely around the ICC, the BCCI, the existing cricketing system and say, look. There’s so much money that we are actually just going to get all the best players in the world. I think that is unlikely because of the hammer that the BCCI has of, hey you Indian players, if you do that will ban you from international competition. And they would also not be able to play domestically in India. They would have to play in the Middle East or South Africa or somewhere else. That would also hurt Indian viewership. I think it is unlikely, but I think it’s more likely that the Saudis or some other very large sovereign wealth fund. There’s an agreement that they can both come to that keeps everyone happy,…

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