Indian Premier League is the best cricketing league in the world and the fans wait for the month of April to arrive so they can see their favourite cricketers in action. Earlier, fans got to see their favourite stars in IPL and then in the Champions League T20 in the month of September but the closure of latter league didn’t helped.
CLT20 was jointly owned by BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa. The league involved the top T20 teams from the world, competing against each other. Since the window of September and October is vacant, BCCI is now mulling over staging a mini IPL in these two months.
“The Champions League (CLT20) used to be played during the Sep/Oct window of around 15-20 days, however, CLT20 has discontinued five years ago, the last event being the CLT20-2014. The Asia Cup, which is another event hosted every alternate year, was generally played during June, however, after CLT20 was discontinued the Asia Cup is now played during the CLT20 window of Sep/Oct and ICC has also scheduled the T20 World Cup in 2020 (Australia) and 2021 (India) around the same time,” Hemang Amin, Indian Premier League’s chief officer informed the IPL GC as quoted by the Indian Express.
“Since the Sep/Oct was CLT20 window, BCCI should look at utilizing this as a 2nd IPL window so the existing teams can have a longer participation instead of the two months and this will also entail that BCCI creates a new revenue stream which will be beneficial for the teams, BCCI and extension of brand IPL,” he added.
Writer’s take
The mini IPL will thrill the cricket fans all over the globe but as it is rightly said, excess of everything is hazardous and it can become one of the reasons for the downfall of IPL or lose of interest amongst the fans.
