I see no relevance to 50-over cricket: Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi | Cricket Information – Occasions of India

NEW DELHI: The previous Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi believes that the way forward for cricket is within the T20 format and the 50-over ODI format doesn’t have relevance anymore and in addition feels that the format of Check cricket additionally must be tweaked a bit.
“The place do I see cricket in India? I see 50 overs going, utterly. I see no relevance to it. It is there for the sake of being there.I see relevance in a four-day Check, not 5 days, and a day-night Check as a result of folks haven’t got the posh to sit down from morning to night. If it is a day-night Check, they may go after workplace hours to look at the sport,” mentioned Modi whereas chatting with Revsportz.

The person who performed a pivotal function in launching the Indian Premier League feels that had he been nonetheless there within the setup then he would have launched the second tier of the league and would have made the league of 20 groups.
“I am not a part of the BCCI. If I used to be there, I’d undoubtedly be considering of launching a second tier, with possession coming in – not on the valuation of a billion {dollars}, however at valuation of 60 to possibly 100 million. This was the valuation of the IPL in 12 months one. That may be as much as 20 groups, coming into the secondary league, and two groups are relegated [from the IPL]. That may make it extraordinarily aggressive, and very precious to the gamers, and it might make a complete new sport altogether. As an alternative of 4 international gamers, you’d have two. Or possibly you’d want 4 since you want extra expertise to be skilled up. What the international gamers do is herald locker-room self-discipline, and supply the expertise that made them what they’re at the moment,” mentioned Modi.
IPL is an enormous model in cricket now and the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) offered the media rights for the Indian Premier League (IPL) for 2023-27 for Rs 48,390 crore. The rights had been offered in an e-auction from June 12 to June 14, 2022. And the board is making an enormous sum of money via these media rights and sponsorship rights.
“BCCI retains 50 per cent of the income of all media rights. It retains 50 per cent of the income of all sponsorship rights. As well as, it will get 20 per cent of the income of all of the groups. Okay? So should you have a look at it, ideally, if there’s USD 200 coming in, in whole income, IPL will get 100, and the group house owners get 100. All ten groups get 100. However then they need to shell out 20. So IPL will get 120, they usually’re left with 80. So the differential of about 35 per cent to 40 per cent,” defined Modi.