The Indian Premier League was created by mistake – the rest, as they say, is history, writes Richard Edwards

It seems extraordinary given the power now wielded by the Indian Premier League (IPL), that the world’s most influential tournament came about almost entirely by accident.
In fact, one of the key figures behind the setting up of the tournament, tells The Cricket Paper that without the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) it’s quite possible that the IPL would never have been created at all.
It’s also conceivable that had the ECB and others adopted a more...