Greg Chappell

Now, if that gets too hard, then it's very easy for people to walk away.

So we need to fight for those sort of things.

Well, I think that's why we've got to make sure that there is some commitment from those...

franchises who are willing to take the players that are developed here or anywhere else that some money comes back into that region to be able to foster junior cricket to be able to foster development programs in first class cricket women's cricket women's cricket's the fastest growing sport in the world um and it will continue to to be so and and quite rightly because it's you know there's some some great cricketers playing in the in the women's uh cricket competitions

They need it more than they think they do.

I remember many years ago when I was in India and IPL was just starting out and an Indian official told me that India don't need the rest of the world.

We can play.

We can do it ourselves.

And I said, yeah, well, that might be so, but you'll find that you'll be needing players from all around the world to make this the competition that you really want it to be.

India can't play the game in a vacuum.

And I don't think they want to in that sense.

It is the Indian diaspora that are taking cricket around the world and making cricket one of the fastest growing sports in the world because Indian people have moved to many parts of the world.

And I wasn't joking when I said in 2050, the US will be one of the top three sports

cricket countries in the world just because the way their structure is set up that if they spend money in this particular area they've got to spend money in that area and give opportunities to cricketers as well as baseballers and NFL players and all that sort of thing and the Indian diaspora in that part of the world will demand it anyway and they will control the money the thing

Cricket in America really blossomed in the 70s and 80s because of the immigration from the West Indies.

But they were financial refugees.

They went to India for a job, any job.

Whereas the migration from India...

a very, very intelligent, very, very educated population that are going there for big jobs.

I mean, they run big countries, companies.