IPL investment to launch Great T20 league in US could change cricket ecosystem
The Khel Times In major American sports like basketball and baseball, there are no bets, only draft picks, which is why major League Baseball has followed suit. The global cricket ecosystem is slowly witnessing a paradigm shift towards franchise cricket and the entry of the Indian Premier League franchise into the United States via the first edition of Major T20 League Cricket(MLC) could be a major step in this direction. IPL Franchise into the US from T20 League Kolkata Knight Riders (Los Angeles), Chennai Super Kings (Texas), Mumbai Indians (New York) and Delhi Capitals (Orcas, Seattle) take ownership or make significant investments in four of the six franchise (the other two are Washington Freedom and San Francisco Unicorns), would change the game of T20 League cricket forever.Two franchises even without IPL investment are owned by people of Indian origin. The main investors in San Francisco Unicorns are venture capitalists Venky Hariharan and Anand Rajaraman, who secured funding from the state of Victoria, Australia.Washington Freedom is jointly owned by Indian-American Sanjay Govil and the Australian New South Wales Cricket Association. Don’t forget that Seattle has Microsoft…