Crowd the calendar, devalue the Champions League

The Champions League is entering its final stages but the majority of the Indian public seem blissfully ignorant of the tournament itself. The reasons are fairly obvious. The fact that not a single IPL team is in the semi-finals is bad enough. Cricket in India has reached a saturation point and as one journalist put it, the public are suffering from "cricket fatigue." Dileep Premachandran sums it up in the Guardian.

One cabbie in Delhi even asked if I was going to watch India play Australia [there is a one-day game on 31 October]. When I told him I was about to watch the Daredevils, he just shook his head. At the next traffic light, he turned to me and said: "How can you watch these games? The [Indian] players are all split up. I wouldn't even know who to cheer for."