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Middlesex captain Ed Smith suggests the best way forward for cricket may be to embrace IPL in the short term, while dedicating its full attention to outwitting it in the future
Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
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Middlesex captain Ed Smith suggests the best way forward for cricket may be to embrace IPL in the short term, while dedicating its full attention to outwitting it in the future. He writes in the Times:
...international cricket could revisit its scheduling. If one month of IPL can make $1 billion for the Indian board, that surely exposes the myth that more cricket makes more profit.
The money has been splurged, the players have been bought. But what about returns on investment? And will domestic cricket profit? An analysis of the IPL auction in Outlook magazine:
It is learnt that Tendulkar had a senior Reliance official tagging along with him in Australia. After regular meetings and daily conference calls with Maker IV, Nariman Point, Tendulkar gave Reliance a list of 21 players that it should try and buy. Says Reliance's Kaushik Roy, who is working on the IPL initiative: "We don't pretend to be a sports company, so obviously the current team is exactly what Sachin wanted and was comfortable with."
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo