Indian Cricket has evolved over the years and the doors of success was just because of IPL. In 2008 it was initiated but later they don’t know that it will become a global league and its popularity would grow beyond expectations.
India have produced many such talents in recent years like Rishabh Pant, Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Arshdeep Singh etc. their participation in IPL gave them a platform to showcase their talent which made them India’s rising stars.
Rashid Latif slams PCB
Indian cricket evolved after winning 1983 World Cup and so the craze of cricket started, then it evolved even more when players like Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar got more popularity and became famous, then many people started playing cricket. BCCI as a body also got evolved and reached at bigger heights.
Today BCCI is the most wealthier cricket body in the world, their revenue percentage also ranks at the top with ICC i.e. 37.4% so their dominance over World Cricket has increased. While saying about all this Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif slams PCB over this issue as why PCB can’t generate more revenue or can’t expand the board and makes it as a business, since BCCI works as a both they look for business profits too and players safety and security too, BCCI has made proud to their country there work speaks more than words, and so IPL too has been popularized because of this. Rashid Latif said:
“It’s not that India became a reckoning force in world cricket recently, after the World Cup. Go back to 2007, 2011, 2015. They have gained so much knowledge from the foreign coaches and at the same time, they are working at the grassroots level without being noticed,” Latif said.
“And then IPL came into play. And now, they have all the best minds with them. They have Ponting with DC, Hussey, and Bravo. But hum kya kar rahe hain,” he added.
“India, just like their film industry, developed a cricket industry. We treat cricket as a hobby that’s why we couldn’t turn it into a business. PSL is still there from where it had started. The highest salary cap is $1.40 lakh. Why can’t they push it further? Why can’t we have players like Mitchell Starc or Pat Cummins? Because we don’t have the money so there’s in no business,” Latif said.