If I am not wrong, some of the BBL franchises are partly owned by Indians (but not by the IPL franchise owners). I agree that they don't have any involvement yet in BPL and PSL. But this can change. We have seen how fierce was the competition to get ownership to the two new franchises when the auction was announced. In the end Goenka and Citicorp won the bids, while Adani and Glazer failed in their attempt. Those who failed to win the franchises have two options - either they can invest in leagues outside India, or they can invest in state-level leagues such as the TNPL.
IPL owners do wanted to invest heavily in BBL but i guess CA didn't gave any permission, situation might change in near future if they head towards privatization. Atm BBL's teams are owned by CA and state bodies.
They also need to think about their own national players participation. Also the way IPL owners are investing everywhere i think some Indian players might start playing in other leagues too, may be not national contracted players but it's possible for un-capped talent.
But we all know that whenever India finds something very worthwhile, they want to make it private. They make everyone feel like that player or anything they are doing is premium stuff. So I don’t know if BCCI is preparing to allow Indian players to play in another league. But about ownership, I am quite confident that if the IPL owners are given permission they will also own teams from DBL. But so far, I don’t think that is going to happen.
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Duke
Yeah, i agree BCCI do consider their players as premium assets (more like cash cow). For business point of view i don't see anything wrong in it, actually quite amazing to see them tackling everything (even their fuckups) as far as i understand that's the only reason IPL gets the big fat checks. There is a reason IPL is worth more than All ICC tournaments + Major T-20 leagues put together. IPL is BCCI's brand so why would they risk their brand value by releasing their players.
For cricketing point of view yes it's very frustrating because local players (especially uncapped and retired) don't get to play in other leagues and gain valuable experience but BCCI is in this business for profits like every cricket board.
Edit
There is some justification behind this move, as the BCCI plays 20% of the player's fee in the IPL as "foreign player release fee" to the respective national cricket board. This income is very significant for boards such as CA, ECB, CSA and WICB. However the other smaller boards such as BCB, SLCB and PCB loses out. And this is one of the reasons why the ICC wanted the foreign player release fee to be distributed evenly between the national boards. But the BCCI and the other members of the pig-4 were against the idea.
For ECB and CA these amounts are peanuts tbh.
For other boards its beneficial. NZC is also gets a big check from the BCCI cause lots of Kiwis are part of the IPL. SLCB also earned fair amount of money in last season as there were lots of SL players in the every IPL squads, guess more than 10 SL players, even net bowlers.
