The latest announcement of T20 leagues in South Africa and the UAE is significant – franchise cricket is ready to take over
‘The Cricket South Africa League is the gamechanger.’here is a key scene towards the end of every spy film. The hero-outsider figure, on the run from a corrupt secret service cell , meets an old contact from inside the organisation, perhaps a bookish ally with a stammer, to share key information and have a wistful exchange in a scenic plaza.
Both have a significant budget. Both are plonked at the heart of the southern summer. And it is no exaggeration to suggest this is where the ice shelf finally cracks. This is cricket’s own Super League moment, a harbinger of the end for the international game in its established forms. New year Tests. Fond, dull, quietly gripping bilateral series. The grand storied history of stats and tables and rankings. The men in raincoats are coming. The game is, if not up, then decisively on the run.
That conjoined franchise machine will be his primary employer, to the extent Buttler may soon be required to ask for a franchise notice of consent in order to leave and play a few games for England. This is a hard-earned status, reward for talent, graft and 10 years of touring. But like it or not, Buttler is a frontiersman in this thing. And yeah, I really don’t think that Bazball Test recall is going to happen.
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