Former India coach Ravi Shastri believes that cricket is heading towards football's way of functioning and warned that the players in future will be only interested in playing global events like World Cups.
"I have always said that the bilateral cricket will suffer, there is no question about that. With the leagues spreading around the world, it's going to go the football way. The teams will assemble just before the World Cup, they play a little bit of bilateral, clubs will release the players and you play the mega World Cup. So it's going to go that way in the long run whether you like it or not," Shastri was quoted as saying by ESPNCricinfo.
With recent reports saying that players are being informally approached by franchises to sign contracts where the team owners become their primary employers instead of their respective country's governing bodies, Shastri foresees that players may have to choose between their country and their club very quickly in future, especially for the ones who can't make it to the international level.
