Ex-New Zealand cricketer Brendon McCullum feels that the sport is reaching a point where many players could prefer these lucrative T20 leagues over international duty, due to the presence of huge sums of money. With IPL considered to be the richest T20 league in the world, there has been a surge in finances in competitions in countries like Australia, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Speaking to Sen Radio, Brendon McCullum said –

He stated that the game is going in a ‘different direction’ and players won’t turm down long-term contracts for less work in T20 leagues. McCullum said – “In the end, the game is going in a different direction.”

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Brendon further added – “The last few years, there’s been a shifting of the sand somewhat around international cricket and we’d be completely naive to think that players would turn down huge amounts of money on long-term contracts for a lot less work in these T20 leagues because they should be playing international cricket. Those days are fast approaching to be over.”