Roll over Tchaikovsky, franchise fusion is here to stay
In his column for the Indian Express , Harsha Bhogle writes that a very substantial part of the future of the game lies in franchise-driven cricket
Jamie Alter
25-Feb-2013
In his column for the Indian Express, Harsha Bhogle writes that a very substantial part of the future of the game lies in franchise-driven cricket. Down to its bare essentials, he feels, the driving force of world markets is supply and demand.
Many fear that embracing change will cripple Cricket as we now know it. I fear not embracing change will take all options away from us. By changing today we can control the flow of the game, by letting it gush around, we will invite change upon us. Indeed, we are seeing change everywhere. Climate is getting out of control (last winter, Mumbai was cold and we didn’t even know what that meant!) and as the crash in the financial markets tells us, even pillars can crumble, history is forced to bow to the present if we are not careful. Why, people are getting obsolete along with technology and those hugely gifted with traditional skills are finding life difficult in the commercial world. There is a lesson there.
Jamie Alter is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo