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In other countries they don't have the same amount of county cricket teams - so if you set up Franchises where with multi millionaires owning them like IPL then where do they play ? T20 right now allows a lot of counties to get in much needed fundings - take that away from them and counties will struggle more than they do now. Traditional county fans wouldn't go near a "Birmingham team" if they were Worcester supports for example.
We booked the tickets in the hope that Somerset would be there - a lot of county fans do that then either go or sell them on if their team didn't make it - yesterday was half full of neutrals with cricket clubs around the country using it as a day out and the other half from the counties at the comp
The Top players in the world play in the big T20 comps because they get paid a lot of money to do so - mainly because those "franchise" teams are owned by very rich people and they play in countries where thousands will pack the ground each week in glorious weather because their climate is perfect for it
In the UK we wouldn't sell out every game , where do the millionaire come from to "own" the teams - the counties would stick their fingers up at it because it takes revenue from them , our weather is ever changing even in the summer games are washed out , our game just isn't set up for the way the IPL or BigBash works and I'm glad - the T20 is great in this country - a few things need tweaking but they try to change things every year to try and attract bigger crowds and every year teams do get some very big players to come along for a month or so
