Sri Lanka Premier League

Is it a crazy idea of hosting a Premier T20 league on is Sri Lanka? Is it going to help improve Sri Lankan cricket in all forms or at least T20 version? How T20 league can help the Sri Lankan economy? These might be couple of question you might raise with the excitement of having Sri Lankan Premier League(SPL) which is quite similar to IPL.

Sri Lanka Cricket secretary Nishantha Ranatunga was sure that the stadium (the R Premadasa Stadium) might be filled to convenience of the 24 matches that is telecast live globally. It would be wise to limited the venue only to R Premadasa Stadium as it is quite easy to manage the tournement. Also, it will be quite easy for majority of the people to reach the stadium in Colombo specially if they target the foreign spectators. However, that shouldn ot be the ultimate reasult that need to achieve. As we have already build couple of international grounds in Pallekele and Hambanthota, we need to move some mataches to those grounds may be in the second stage of the game.

“The primary intention for Sri Lanka to commit itself to hosting a T20 competition from the character depending on Ranatunga is always to enhance the standard of T20 cricket within the u . s . states also to increase the risk for team representing Sri Lanka within the Champions League more competitive getting a view to winning it.

“The 35 overseas players are increasingly being backed with the tournament sponsors Somerset Entertainment Endeavors (Singapore) Pvt Ltd who’ve made the decision to operate this tournament for your first five years. India is already benefitting from the IPL. They manage to find the hidden talent and develop them to the 50 over matches and test cricket. We need the use SPL to achieve the same targets. It is always gives a good opportunity for youngsters to play with international and national players and show their colours and get more experience.

“Within that period hopefully to find out ourselves just like a strong T20 cricket nation and boost the cricketing capabilities inside a junior level across all provinces,” mentioned Ranatunga.

“We can’t match up with the IPL. Just what amount of the impact this start-up company might have on Sri Lanka’s cricket overall specifically in both longer versions of the sport, could be. For at this time it seems the cricket managers are taken up in the wave of T20 cricket madness that may appear the dying knell of Make certain ODI cricket in this country. Since it is site visitors hardly arrive for Test matches and ODIs specifically in Colombo. Many are actually the occasions when matches are actually carried out to empty stands. At the end of the day it all depends on the marketing, how well the sponsors going to market SPL. IPL did it very well and they are benefiting from it.

The question that needs to be asked for is if the country’s economy can pay for to sustain hosting a tournament such as the Premier T20 league. Depending on Ranatunga Sri Lanka Cricket will not be hooked with the costs of running it but stands to attain plenty of advantage out of this afterwards.

The chance of hosting a tournament from the character is this may also attract betting about the massive. That’s a thing that Sri Lanka do not want especially at any time when accusations are increasingly being thrown forth by former cricketers about match fixing. Sri Lanka Cricket maybe holding the tournament in good belief however it must concurrently strongly safeguard the country’s status which has in recent occasions taken a bit of the shaking by the amount of loose talks and accusations that are thrown around.

SPL is not going to affect the cricket in Sri Lanka. It can do a impact on Sri Lankan economy as well. Hotels, taxi, public transport services, local shops around the ground, tourism (foreign and local) should have positive impact from SPL and things should be organize to get the maximum out of these type of opportunities.

Finally, it is quite important to start it with a positive mind set and look in to all the areas that can be benefit from SPL and make plans to get the maximum out of it.  What you thik is the best way to get the maximum out of SLP for Sri Lankan cricket and the economy?