International ‘rebel’ cricket just the ticket to put the ‘big three’ in their place
IN CASE you missed it, there’s a lot of talk about a "Rebel" cricket league being formed, and the chatter isn’t dying down.We’re talking about an international league here, not club or franchise. We’re talking nation versus nation, SA against England, Australia against India, etc. Like most big ideas, it seems absurd and fanciful to the majority of us because we are the victims of our own limitations.Most minds will boggle at the enormity of the logistics required. But all things are possible with three building blocks: media, money and motivation. And they exist.The Essel Group owns Zee TV, one of the richest television networks in the world, and its owner, Subhash Chandra, is a billionaire with a strong interest in cricket. He started the ill-fated Indian Cricket League before the Indian Premier League had got off the ground but was outmanoeuvred by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) with the support of the world’s heavyweight nations.The difference between then and ...
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