India dominates cricket – and calls the shots on and off the field
In a country of 1.4 billion, with the majority following the game religiously, the BCCI knows it’s sitting on a gold mine as lucrative as Saudi oilfields.
Let’s get straight to the point. India is not just dominant in the world of cricket – India owns the world of cricket.
While the tourists were teaching Australia a lesson in Perth’s first Test match of the Australian summer – winning by 295 runs inside four days – the Indian Premier League, valued at over $25 billion, was holding its mega-auction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Ten teams were trying to outbid each other for the 574 players on offer, including 37 Australians.
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Tracey Holmes is professorial fellow in sport at the University of Canberra and host of The Sports Ambassador podcast.
