Err, actually, the question should be why is IPL still being held when India has broken the records for new cases and hospitals are out of oxygen?
There’s a national crisis going on!!
The scale of IPL is hugeee (In trump's tone).
Players want to play because: most of the players will get money of around 5 Crore INR (USD 670000) some players get 3x of that. on top of that they can get prize money of USD 6*1500 based on performance, ,on top of that there is advertisement money.
People will watch the matches in huge numbers: 6-7 million people I can see in hotstar online viewers, a lot more people watch on TV (60-70) million. the second popular sport badminton gets around 5-10k attention.
Broadcasters will get a lot of money: there is a lot of advertisement money, usually two kinds of advertisements
-Useful promising startups like Unacadamy, CRED etc.
-Gambling startups like Dream11, My11circle etc.
People watch matches cause:
- there are a lot of diehard fans for the city teams.
- A lot of young people gamble and bet on these apps, this is what I dislike because a lot of young people are losing money, some committed suicide, robbers usually increase at this time of the year.
BCCI (Indian board) literally controls and rules ICC (international board) and cricket. Government-BCCI have this inseparable money-politics kind of relationship.
IPL franchises are owned by huge companies and this govt doesn't want to displease them.
All all I agree, in this national crisis situation some of that money can be put to good use.
Whom to blame here, I am myself watching matches of my fav team, after these disappointing shows by Indian badminton team some of my cricket interest rekindled.