So let me get this straight. Just because cricket is the second most popular sport in the whole world.
So, it does not need to expand the number of teams that play in the World Cup?
And it also can be allowed to have corruption?
You clearly didn't understand my point. Expanding teams at this point isn't really necessary since many new teams have been improving and gaining ground in recent teams. Also, I hate corruption too, but you can never completely stop it.
90% of the audience for the IPL are Indians. Nice work, achieving global audiences.
90%? Lol. Majority are Indians for sure, but your 90% claim is silly and below link is just one example as to why.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/sports-trends/the-ipl-is-grabbing-more-eyeballs-in-the-uk-than-the-epl-6033551.html/ampDo your research!
As far as I know, the viewership of IPL is around 400+ million around the world. And the number of people outside India watching the IPL is around 8 million.
And, expanding teams is necessary for the survival of cricket. What happens if suddenly India loses interest in cricket (hope that doesn't happen) which makes the majority of the revenue? Only by expanding teams, there will be more exposure, popularity, and revenue.
What a load of nonsense. Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world and leagues like the IPL are some of the most popular and expensive leagues globally which is why your reasoning makes zero sense.
The ICC are just another corrupt organization who will continue focusing more on countries like India, Pakistan, Australia etc where cricket is extremely popular for financial reasons primarily.
However, they have been slowly and steadily diverting some of their focus towards new cricket friendly nations these days.
Money, Mafia and corruption is now a part of the society we can't avoid these things and life is also not easy without their involvement for the higher profile peoples now it's all in blood of this generation as many are having dream to be rich very quickly with few are achieving their goals with the help of technology and their genius minds, but most of they are trying to achieve these things with the involvement of this all.
I remember we have a soccer match between Diego Maradona and Michel Platini elevens for the spirit of the game and Diego Maradona's motto was drugs free sports and Michel Platini's motto was corruption free spots and after this match we have Diego Maradona involved in drugs and Michel Platini was sacked from UEFA for the involvement in corruption which is best picture of this all era so how can you expect ICC will be corruption free, and we will be having things on merit while we have countries like India and Pakistan.
Everyone knows how corrupt ICC and all the cricket boards are. We can understand that if we just look at the selection of some cricket boards. And we also know that ICC has some likings for those cricket boards which bring them a good amount of money. But my point is, they should at least invest in the smaller teams so that they can get better revenues from them later.