What do you feel about the future of the new Lankan Premier League? Is it sustainable?
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NM"A" what do you feel about the future of this league?
sustainable?
NM"A" what do you feel about the future of this league?
sustainable?
Honestly, I'd say it's no more or less sustainable than any of the other "Mini IPL" styled T20 leagues. Afghan Premier League, Bangladesh Premier League, Caribbean Premier League, Mzansi Super League, and so on and so forth. They're pretty much all exactly the same product, none of them make any damn money and they're all trying to fellate the Indian market without getting any real marketable Indian players in.What do you feel about the future of this league? Sustainable?
the main issue for this is,season-long T20 league
This is the fallacy of all these mini-IPL leagues though. They rest on the assumption that people won't give a shit if top players aren't there, but that's not the case at all. I was at Wantage Road before the pandemic and it was packed to the rafters for a Northants-Derbyshire game where the biggest names on each team were Faheem Ashraf and Ravi Rampaul respectively.the main issue for this is,
Motive of a t20 league is viewership which comes via audience and sponsors
and a long tournament will work against it, they will struggle more as star players wont play much considering int. commitments.
Honestly, I'd say it's no more or less sustainable than any of the other "Mini IPL" styled T20 leagues. Afghan Premier League, Bangladesh Premier League, Caribbean Premier League, Mzansi Super League, and so on and so forth. They're pretty much all exactly the same product, none of them make any damn money and they're all trying to fellate the Indian market without getting any real marketable Indian players in.
None of these leagues is actually trying to build any kind of loyalty or legacy, they're just trying to grab cash.
Europe or rather UK works differently than the sub continentI was at Wantage Road before the pandemic and it was packed to the rafters for a Northants-Derbyshire game where the biggest names on each team were Faheem Ashraf and Ravi Rampaul respectively.
The difference is that people support their team, not some snazzy international signing. If the Basnahira Cricket Dundee struggled to get people through the door in the first Sri Lankan tournament, maybe it's because they had no attachment to the franchise as opposed to not having big enough names (Tillakaratne Dilshan and Brad Hodge)
Europe or rather UK works differently than the sub continent
down here in the sub continent, for the vast majority, its the big stars which attracts the crowd
why do you think a sandeep sharma who has been giving results about at par with bumrah and rabada in IPL, but no one bats an eye for him? because he doesnt have a big persona.
if he were playing in an english county, things would have been different.
its the subcontinent market here, and remember, here, majority viewers, who are not ardent cricket fans like us, expect big names, glamour, entertainment, flashy banners, trashy gimmicks, etc for them to enjoy a game. they dont give a blip about the actual cricket. for them, the game is all about everything but cricket.
I think you might be overstating the risk of quality plummeting a little bit. The Global T20 Canada was the closest I've seen to that on TV, and even then the issue wasn't anything to do with the Canadian players not being good enough (Rodrigo Thomas, Ravinderpal Singh, Nitish Kumar, Saad Bin Zafar and Dillon Heyliger were all excellent) - the issue was with big-name players dialling it in for teams that didn't mean anything to them, in a venue that was not equipped to hold such an event.I actually agree with @Aislabie here. Once you've built up the brand or attachment, stars don't really matter. The Indian Super League is the best example for it. My issue with the non-availability of stars is that the quality plummets down beyond a point and T20s are simply not entertaining when you've got teams and players without quality.
THIS IS BUSINESS.
and that is because their board of directors, the CFO, CMO, COO, CTO, all are not working efficiently.NONE OF THESE BUSINESSES ARE MAKING ANY MONEY.
I think you might be overstating the risk of quality plummeting a little bit. The Global T20 Canada was the closest I've seen to that on TV, and even then the issue wasn't anything to do with the Canadian players not being good enough (Rodrigo Thomas, Ravinderpal Singh, Nitish Kumar, Saad Bin Zafar and Dillon Heyliger were all excellent) - the issue was with big-name players dialling it in for teams that didn't mean anything to them, in a venue that was not equipped to hold such an event.
If that had been a proper sports league, given the chance to establish itself, then there would have been far more love from fans for someone like Anton Devcich who visibly gave 100% than for someone like Dwayne Smith, who visibly didn't.
And as for @Parth D saying about Sandeep Sharma, the reason he doesn't have a core group of fans like the "bigger names" is because holding a Super Auction every few years where teams can only retain the very biggest names creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where fans see all other players as transient. Jasprit Bumrah has played for only one IPL franchise; for Mumbai fans, he's their player.
from the cricketing stand point, @Aislabie and @Bevab both of you are absolutely correct, but my pals, there is another world of marketing, finance, operations which exists today, and THIS IS BUSINESS.
Put yourself in place of an organiser, he doesnt only have to think about cricket, but all the other factors too, add everything up and i am pretty sure you will realise, there is more to this than just cricket