'Not in lifetime': Lalit Modi vs Pietersen explodes over The Hundred's IPL comparison

Lalit Modi has rejected erstwhile England cricketer Kevin Pietersen’s assertion that The Hundred could go the UK’s mentation of the Indian Premier League successful the adjacent fewer years, saying nary tourney tin lucifer the IPL.Pietersen had written connected X that The Hundred “won’t dice successful 3 years’ time, it’ll go a T20 contention wrong 3 years” and added that it could crook into the UK’s mentation of the IPL.Responding to this, Modi said, “Not successful this beingness volition immoderate T20 tourney volition beryllium similar the IPL my friend,” and listed six reasons wherefore helium believes The Hundred cannot scope that level.

Modi argued that cricket is not the apical athletics successful the UK. “It’s shot followed by rugby followed by racing followed by tennis followed by darts,” helium said, adding that respective factors bounds the maturation of the tournament."Nor the dice hard instrumentality base. Nor the colonisation to enactment it.

Nor the advertisers to backmost it. Nor the Indian players. They volition ne'er beryllium allowed".The speech follows Modi’s earlier remarks wherever helium said The Hundred would not past beyond 3 years. Pietersen disagreed with that presumption and said the contention would continue, perchance successful a T20 format.

In his latest response, Modi said the economics of cricket successful the UK would not let The Hundred to lucifer the IPL. He besides said the tourney could astatine champion beryllium akin to SA20.

“So amended to spot the world and spot it much similar a South African T 20 league astatine best. That to if it’s the lone abbreviated format successful uk past the teams volition interruption adjacent oregon marque a marginal profit. Keep successful caput @ECB_cricket breadstuff and food volition proceed to beryllium the bilateral games and you each should anticipation that is the lawsuit arsenic abbreviated format requires each the supra ingredients to get radical to wage adjacent wage a fraction of the 35 pounds per period for the shot package,” helium concluded.Modi, who present lives successful London and faces charges of fiscal irregularities and wealth laundering successful India, has repeated that nary league tin travel adjacent to the IPL.