T20 leagues will dominate world cricket: W.V. Raman
Former India cricketer W.V. Raman on Saturday said that T20 leagues will dominate the future of cricket globally.
'It (cricket) is going to take the route of football in terms of governance, the way I see it. What will happen is that there will be a lot of (T20) leagues sprouting across the globe. It's also a thing players would encourage because they get to play across the globe, they get to make a lot more money, and they're not really controlled by anybody. They don't have to sign contracts where they are bound by a lot of things. Footloose, fancy-free, a lot of money, and a lot of razzmatazz. What more do you need? I think that's the way it's going to be,' W.V. Raman said here at the panel discussion of the book on Chennai Super Kings, Leo, authored by the Advocate General of Tamil Nadu and CSK insider, P.S. Raman.
On the future of Test cricket, W.V. Raman said: 'It will survive if the administrators look at making it a bit interesting or try and get a level playing field. By this, I mean they need to have a two-tier system. I think the ICC missed a trick way back in the 90s, when they should have perhaps thought of making the different nations in the Caribbean islands play and bring in another division with one or two promotions and demotions'.
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