By Admin 
Former IPL chairman and founder Lalit Modi gave his opinion on the influence of cricket in America. He revealed in a conversation with former Australian cricketer Michael Clarke that when he called Chris Gayle about this league, what was his answer. He also claimed that without players like Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, this league will not be successful in the next 50 years.
The ICC tried to make cricket popular in America by organizing some matches of T20 World Cup 2024. Apart from India’s big matches, the number of fans here was less. The United States of America Cricket Association started Major League Cricket (MLC) in the episode of making cricket a success in America, although this league did not see the kind of craze that the association expected.
What happened to Lalit Modi with Chris Gayle?
Lalit Modi revealed that he had called Chris Gayle during the previous edition of MLC, when the West Indies explosive batsman had told that there is no craze of fans in it.
He said, “After the Major League cricket is over, I called my friend Chris Gayle. I told him that I saw you in Texas, how is the atmosphere there? Gayle told me that brother, it is completely ‘dead’. There is no one in the stadium. There was no one in the stadium. Not going to happen. “
League will not be successful without players like Virat Kohli, Dhoni
The former IPL chairman believes that the audience will come to watch a cricket match in America only when Virat Kohli is playing a big player like MS Dhoni, otherwise it will not spend any money to watch the small player.
He said, “I am a businessman who is sitting in Los Angeles in San Francisco, USA. I will go to see someone named Virat Singh playing against Dushyant Singh or Lalit Singh, I will never hear about him. I will spend a lot of hard work to see Virat Kohli, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Michael Clarke, Brett Lee.”