Is cricket becoming a slave of football?
It is a fact that many do not know that the indian cricket Board is busy working on bringing the structure of the football game into cricket. It has been announced that the mini-auction for the 2023 IPL series will be held on december 23 in Kochi. Preparations for this are also underway. For this, all the IPL teams are publishing all the details like the list of players they are going to retain, the players who will be removed, and the players who will retire. It is in this context that bcci has introduced a rule that no one has even thought of in IPL. That's the Impact Player rule. With this rule, a team can now play 12 players. A regular substitute means no batting and bowling. But now this rule allows a player to be declared a substitute in advance and makes him do anything be it batting or bowling.
Many people may think that this rule is as if they have seen it somewhere. If you think so, it is right. This is the substitute rule that has been in operation in football for many years. bcci introduced it first through syed mushtaq ali Trophy and now it is bringing it into IPL. It is believed that it will definitely be used in international competitions in the coming days. Not only this, can you believe that bcci has been trying to change cricket to a football-like structure for about 14 years??.. An example of this is IPL copying football. The reason for the huge money flow in football is that it has kept the international matches at a minimum and brought in domestic series to attract every domestic fan.Following the same formula, bcci brought a domestic series called IPL for the first time in 2008. We all know that through this bcci has emerged as the richest cricket board in the world. Now, most countries are also conducting these domestic series. In an environment where domestic series like IPL are now the food for cricket fans, bcci has embarked on the next steps. IPL has increased the number of matches as well as the number of days. This will reduce India's international competitiveness. May decrease further in the coming days. Many ex-players from india have already started talking about playing domestic series on all other days of the year instead of playing international teams only in the ICC series. Similarly, there have been talks of indian players also playing in foreign series. If that happens, the competition numbers of all domestic series will definitely increase. Accordingly, the rules of football are also brought into IPL. So it is widely believed that within 10 years domestic series may completely take over cricket. international cricket can be watched only in ICC series like World Cup.