"No hiding from that": Ravi Shastri Hints At 2 IPL Seasons In A Year

aditi agarwal

Jun 1

Previous Team India lead trainer Ravi Shastri has recommended that respective T20 series between nations are discarded and global matches in the most limited design confined to World Cups like clockwork to make a greater window for establishment competitions like the Indian Premier League (IPL). Shastri, who was India's mentor for 2021 T20 World Cup, guaranteed that "nobody recollects" respective competitions. He proposed that cricket go the football way, where club rivalries are more common and global matches generally played in large competitions like the World Cup.

He even expressed that later on, there could be two times of the IPL in a year.

"Indeed, totally, there's a lot of two-sided stuff happening in T20 cricket," Shastri said on ESPNcricinfo.

"That's what i've said, in any event, when I was the mentor of India, I could see it occurring before my eyes. It ought to go the football way, where, in T20 cricket, you simply play the World Cup. Two-sided competitions - nobody recollects that," he said.

"I don't recall a solitary game in the last six-seven years as mentor of India, excepting the World Cup. A group wins the World Cup, they will recollect it. Tragically, we didn't, so I don't recall that either," said Shastri.

"What I am used to is: you play establishment cricket all over the planet; every nation is permitted to have their establishment cricket, which is their homegrown cricket, and afterward, like clockwork, you come and play a World Cup," he made sense of.

"That is what's in store. It very well may be tomorrow - 140 games, split 70-70. In two seasons," Shastri said on the idea of two IPL seasons in a year.

"Who knows. That is the way it will go. That is the way it's created as a monster of a property. Also, you can't stow away from that," he said.

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