{"id":221683,"date":"2026-04-23T00:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221683"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:48:14","slug":"before-ipl-there-was-icl-how-indian-cricket-league-pioneered-t20-revolution-but-was-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221683","title":{"rendered":"Before IPL, there was ICL: How Indian Cricket League pioneered T20 Revolution but was shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Cricket League laid the groundwork for T20 franchise cricket before the Indian Premier League, but it was eventually shut down due to opposition from the BCCI, player bans, and behind-the-scenes politics. So, what&#8217;s really happened to ICL?<br \/>\n\u00a0&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/cricket\/before-ipl-there-was-icl-how-indian-cricket-league-pioneered-t20-revolution-but-was-shut-down-3034635.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Cricket League laid the groundwork for T20 franchise cricket before the Indian Premier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}