A few things IPL can do to make things interesting for franchises, players, and fans

#4 Championship Rings

2017 Houston Astros World Series Ring

The players and coaches of the winning team of the IPL are given a memento for their efforts. Now mementos are so old school, how about making it more interesting? Taking a page out of American Sports, who by the way also give away rings to thousands of its employees involved as well, IPL and teams should start this tradition. The 2017 Houston Astros who won the world series distributed 1,332 rings to everyone in the organization who contributed towards their win. The rings that players and coaches received had 214 diamonds and 25 sapphires. By this, I am not implying that IPL should have as many precious stones in there but a little something more lavish than a memento could make the players feel more gratified.

I am almost positive that money is not an issue here as IPL is the richest cricket league in the world, has a huge contract from Star, a whopping 16,347 crores (approx 2.5 Billion USD), the amount for which Houston Rockets NBA franchise was recently purchased for. Now that is just media rights, the title sponsors, and other sponsors ticket sales generate wholesome revenues too which can be used in giving some sort of token of appreciation to the whole organization of the winning team.

In 2017, introducing Fan parks was a huge success for IPL and I think taking action towards Fan Shop can be even more successful. Most of the above ideas are already in play by a lot of the leagues around the world and it is nice to see IPL join them too.