NEIL MANTHORP: Alec Stewart counts cost of franchise cricket
Players depend on counties for just about everything they need, says former England star
02 May 2023 - 05:05
In 2022, during the English summer and a month after the Indian Premier League (IPL) had finished, a Mumbai Indians squad toured England playing 10 20-over games against club sides and county second XI teams. They won them, as you would expect, but that’s not the point.
Mumbai’s “problem”, which will only increase as the IPL teams head towards globalisation and 12-month contracts for their players, is what to do with those assets between IPL seasons and all the other tournaments in which they have teams...
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