Expert cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle feels the cricketing fraternity is moving towards a whole new world of commerce.

Sri Lankan Cricket had recently announced that its players can play in the IPL after it was learnt that their Test series in England would clash with the second edition of the cash heavy IPL.

Cricket, Harsha feels is too small a family to let any kind of to let its members twined up in any kind of quarrel.

Writing for his column on espnstar.com. Harsha feels that "a franchise driven system, with more localised loyalties is so critical to the future of the game".

There would have been a time, Harsha feels, when Roy Dias or a Duleep Mendis would have gone to any length to play a Test match in England. However, things have changed now and there are no rights and wrongs.

Since Sri Lanka cannot pay their cricketers well enough, it makes logical sense for the Board to allow the players to earn a better living by playing in the IPL. However, horrendous that may sound, it is the truth.

Harsha also feels that England do not have to really do anything to counter the IPL. Different leagues from different countries can exist in perfect harmony, as is the case with football.

However, Harsha also raises the question of how much of T20 is good for the game and answers it by saying that the answer would best be given by the market.

No single indivisual can decide what the game needs. It is the market which has to call the shots. Any amount of control can lead to a Kerry Packer like revolution once again.

So the world must now brace itself for cricketers who specialise only in the T20 form of cricket and the kinds who would jump from one franchise to another and also for a new generation where the aspiration might no longer be to play Test cricket.

Harsha says the cricketing fraternity could soon see nationla federations losing control over their players. He writes: "I suspect, in the longer term, it will also mean lesser control for the national federations over their players. This desire for control is the only factor that can limit the progress of commercial enterprise for the moment. But if fairly autonomous leagues take shape, it will only be a matter of time before national federations lose control. "You can't play for your country," they might
thunder till the response is "But I don't really want to, sir!"