Is the future of the IPL in danger?

The only thing certain is uncertainty. Following the success of the IPL where everything seemed to be going well, (there was even a close final between the Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings), everyone expected the IPL to grow even further. Now, news has been confirmed that the IPL won't even take place in India. This could potentially be very bad for the game in India itself. I can see the spectators feeling most hard done by this.


Building a city fan base was never going to be easy. Even though there were good attendances for every game, fan support was not as partizan as it is for international games. This is a far cry for instance from the English Premiership in Football where the game history has developed to such an extent that teams have local rivals as well as title rivals or relegation rivals if you must. Towards the end of the IPL we began to see at least the start of some sort of partizan support growing. Now these teams are going to places where the locals there will struggle to identify with these teams. Just how do you say you are going to support the Kolkata Knight Riders rather than Mumbai Indians. Perhaps it might be a case of well he is a South African so I'll support that team or I'd pay to watch Sachin just because he is a big player. In both cases fans would be disappointed if they didn't get to see the player they wanted to see. The other thing is that if the IPL was even half as successful as it was in the first year, the players could easily turn around and say we don't want to go to India to play this competition there. And would we blame them for doing this?

Perhaps the IPL deserve this. After all the IPL only came about probably because of the success the ICL had. What goes around comes around.?