Published 2026-11-10 · By Yash Chatterjee (Chief Cricket & Analytics Editor · Ahmedabad Desk)

IPL 12: More Franchises, Less Cricket? The Cost of Greed

Twelve teams. That is the number floating around the BCCI corridors now. I was chatting with a few scouts in Ahmedabad yesterday, and the mood is less 'excitement' and more 'exhaustion'. We have already stretched the calendar to its breaking point. Now, the suits want two more franchises by 2028.

It is a bold move. It is also a risky one. The league is already a bloated beast.

The Dilution of the Talent Pool

Where do these players come from? That is the million-dollar question. We are already seeing the 'middle-overs choke' in domestic T20s because the quality is being spread too thin. You cannot simply manufacture world-class finishers out of a Ranji grind. If you add two more teams, you aren't discovering new talent; you are just inflating the price of the existing few.

The depth isn't there. Not really. We see the same fifteen names dominating the auctions year after year. The rest are just filling slots in a spreadsheet. Adding more teams is like playing a high-stakes jetx crash game real money style bet—you keep pushing the multiplier higher and higher, hoping the system doesn't collapse before you cash out.

Scheduling Nightmares and the Dew Factor

Logistically, this is a mess. Look at the current travel fatigue. Players are flying from Mohali to Bengaluru on private jets, barely sleeping, only to face a skiddy hard length on a fresh deck. Add four more games to the league stage, and you are looking at a tournament that eats up two full months of the summer.

  • Player burnout becomes an inevitability, not a risk.
  • The 'dew factor after 8:30 PM IST' becomes a bigger lottery than the toss itself.
  • International boards will finally snap over the window congestion.

Who wins here? Not the fans. Not the players. The broadcasters do. They get more slots for ads. They get more 'content'. But the actual cricket—the gritty, tactical battle of a new-ball burst against a nervous opener—gets lost in the noise of a bloated schedule.

The Impact Player Gamble

We already have the Impact Player rule, which has essentially turned the IPL into a 12-a-side game. It has killed the art of the bowling all-rounder. Now, imagine this imbalance scaled across twelve teams. The boundary-percentage will skyrocket. The bowlers, already struggling with the short boundaries in cities like Bengaluru, will be slaughtered.

"The game is becoming a batting carnival where the bowler is merely a delivery mechanism for the ball." — A veteran coach I spoke to in the dugout.

Is this what we want? A league where bowling at the death is treated as a sacrificial act? We are trading the tactical nuance of the game for the sheer volume of matches. It is a commercial victory and a sporting tragedy.

The Bottom Line on 2028

The BCCI believes the market can absorb more. They see the numbers, the valuations, and the global appetite. But cricket is not a software update. You cannot just add more features without crashing the operating system. If the league expands to twelve, the quality of the average match will drop. The 'must-watch' feeling of the IPL will fade into a background hum of repetitive fixtures.

Keep the ten teams. Fix the schedule. Let the players breathe. Instead of chasing more franchises, let's chase better cricket. Because right now, the IPL is sprinting toward a cliff, and the only people cheering are the ones selling the tickets.

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