West Indies cricket
In the West
Indies, cricket began by proclaiming the supremacy of white settlers
- no black
player could captain until the 60s - before allowing
blacks to
assert themselves. Today India, which is
becoming a
world power politically and economically, finds itself in the
cricket an
area where she can dominate.Pakistan super league teams 2018
It is by far
the
largest and
most lucrative market. As Nalin Mehta, Jon Gemmell and
Dominic
Malcolm explain in a recent issue of Sport in Society magazine "Cricket
players are the
biggest
brands in the (Indian) consumer economy." The Indian Premier League ( IPL
) , a championship that
brings
together teams attached to a city on the model of the
English
football championship , offer players sums previously unimaginable for
a season of
a few months. In 2008, IPL's first year , the
worldwide
broadcast and franchise sales reached $ 1.7 billion.
dollars [1.2
billion] and some players have been awarded contracts
worth more
than $ 1 million . In 2009, the championship had to go into exile in South
Africa for
fear of
unrest in this election year, but this setback is probably
temporary.
Many professional players from around the world do not aspire to
a match test
place but to a contract with the IPL .

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