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Completely disagree, if anything overseas players are heavily underpriced due to the four-per-team rule. IMO it would be so much less appealing without overseas players it would be untrue. What would be the difference between it and any other domestic T20 competition if that weren't the case?I don't buy that. Maybe a little less, but I am not sure if the return on investment on overseas players is at all worth it, consideing how much more they cost compared to local players. We'll see in a few years once the business settles down and the owners think about optimizing their product. Would the profitability be any less if they just had one overseas mega star per team? I would doubt it.
Overseas players don't increase the profitability of county cricket, which is an investment in the English cricket team that runs at a considerable loss AFAIK. The IPL is a money-spinner that's heavily reliant on players developed overseas- players that had benefited from this investment in their country's FC system, in many cases making them the superstars they are. So why shouldn't the administrators feel hard done by if their years of money and effort end up making a fortune for a rival cricket board while they receive nothing?That's ridiculous. I wasn't aware of any checks counties sent out to national boards for playing in county cricket. If they tried it and IPL barred overseas players, players from every country would be pretty pissed, and rightly so.