Saudi Arabia is wooing IPL owners and India’s cricket board with the goal of creating a Twenty20 league that only the IPL could rival for financial scale.
, all of which have attracted accusations of being cases of sportswashing to cover Saudi Arabia’s human rights record.
LIV golf CEO Greg Norman, who heads the controversial golf tour created and funded by Saudi Arabia backers.After sponsorship deals by Aramco with the ICC and India’s cricket board, the BCCI, the Saudi Tourism Commission announced a major partnership with the IPL in February. Even so, the prospect of a huge money Twenty20 event backed by IPL owners and the BCCI would be a massive change to what is already a packed cricket schedule, in which major Indian clubs are wielding increasing influence by buying up stakes in multiple leagues.
When that deal was reached, Alhasan Aldabbagh, president of Asia Pacific markets for the authority, said that further expansion into cricket was part of plans to grow the visibility and tourism market of Saudi Arabia.
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