The League chairman Arun Dhumal said that the Indian Premier League has played an important role in identifying new talents over the years and also made three formats more competitive on Friday.
Arun Dhumal’s Statement on IPL
The Indian Premier League has played an important role in the domestic circuit identifying many young talents. Since the inaugural season in 2008, IPL and T20 cricket has grown exponentially.
Players like Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and Rinku Singh got their India caps after their impressive performance in the league.
”IPL has done a phenomenal job as far as the identification of new boys is concerned. We have seen, every season you will have very talented youngsters coming in like Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh,” told Dhumal on PTI.
”They have then played for India also, so that way IPL has turned out to be a great tournament for the young talent and hopefully this season is going to be no different,” he added.
The Indian Premier League has been the world’s second cash-rich league in terms of per-match value, behind USA’s National Football League and the chairman feels the league had a positive effect on the Test and ODI formats as well.
“Definitely, IPL in the last 15 years has become the second most important league in the world, it is the second most valuable league. You can imagine how cricket has tremendously shifted post-IPL. We have seen Test matches yielding more results, ODIs becoming more competitive.”
“Some two decades back, 250-300 used to be a good score. Now you have 400 happening regularly. We all celebrated when Sachin scored his first 200 in an ODI game and after that, there has been so much that has come, and thanks to this T20 format and this IPL coming into play,” Dhumal added.
”We have come out with the schedule for about two weeks only as of now and we are waiting for the election commission to come out with the election schedule.
“As and when that comes, accordingly we will work out the schedule for the rest of the tournament, hopefully, we will get a good number of games in Dharamshala also.”
Coming to the national side, India has secured victory in the series 3-1 on England’s tour of India 2024. Both sides will be planning
“The final Test of this series is taking place here, and we are lucky that it’s going to be a historical Test given it’s Ashwin’s 100th, Bairstow’s 100th, and most likely Anderson will get 700 wickets, and it’s starting on a day when Sunil Gavaskar scored 10,000 runs, so it’s historic in that sense also,” concluded Dhumal.
The 17th edition of the IPL is set to commence on March 22 and the first match of the IPL 2024 schedule will be played between reigning champions Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.
