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In 1992-93, a very significant event occurred in England that changed the way football is viewed the world over, and set off a chain of events that would trigger a butterfly effect in a different sport far east of the British Isles many years later. That was the year the Premiership (as it was then named) was born, breaking away from the Football League and forming a kind of competition where lucrative television deals led to mind-numbing paydays for everyone involved.

Despite Lalit Modi's claims of having come up with the concept of the unimaginatively named Indian Premier League (IPL) in a midsummer night's epiphany, it doesn't require an excessive amount of deductive skills to point to where it all originated. Apart from the name and the franchise-based concept, there can be a lot of parallels drawn between these leagues in terms of the way they have affected the nature of their respective sports, as well as the makeup and quality of the national teams.