Former India coach Ravi Shastri thinks that cricket is following the same path as football and players will only want to participate in global events like the World Cup. Shastri believes that bilateral cricket will suffer because of T20 leagues spreading around the world. Teams will only gather before the World Cup and play a small amount of bilateral cricket. Shastri predicts that players may have to choose between their country and their club in the future.
Shastri believes that players who do not make it to the international level can still play white-ball cricket across different franchises globally. The players are not contracted to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), so nothing stops them from going to different leagues. Shastri thinks that protecting the league is important, but letting certain players go will not affect the league in any way. He concludes by saying that he does not feel bad about a potential shift in the cricketing world, but he thinks that 50-over cricket will suffer.
