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#2 To promote the motive of the Darts Premier League
The Indian Premier League tournament format has been utilised in a brand new darts tournament in India. The Darts Premier League will see nine franchises compete against each other in June this year, with each team endorsed by a celebrity. A prize of ₹10 lakh is on offer and each team will hope a marquee player can help get them to a tournament win in 2020.
However, there are problems with this concept. The IPL and Kabaddi leagues that are so popular with this tournament format are only successful as India are foremost in the respective sports and all the best foreign players are attracted enough to take part.
For this league, the quality will be fairly unimpressive and there are no big names of any kind taking part as overseas stars. Even India's biggest names aren't going to compete as far as we know, with neither Nitin Kumar or Prakash Jiwa in the marquee player list.
The main positive of this league will be attracting new attention to the sport for Indian viewers via the popular franchise format, which will send them in the right direction to see the World Class darts available to watch all year round at the PDC, where stars such as world number one Michael van Gerwen, World Champion Peter Wright and legend Gary Anderson will excite new viewers.
Another positive is the novelty of the league's female participation, as it is mandatory to have three women per team, which emulates and replaces the overseas player rule. Trust me; the spectacle of men going head to head with women at darts isn't something to be missed. Just see Fallon Sherrock at this year's World Championship, where she became the first women ever to win a match at the biggest event in darts.
