Indian blogger Jagadish, from Cricket24X7, believes that this will be the last World Cup ever held in the West Indies.
"I know that the Caribbean will not get to host any more World Cups. There is a one word reason - television. When the West Indies won the World Cup hosting rights in 1998, cricket was not the huge 'made-for-TV' spectacle that it is now. Fights for TV rights were unheard of and Kerry Packer happened two decades earlier."
He goes on to state that the vast television market in India inconvenienced by the match times will lead the ICC to never grant the West Indies another World Cup.
"This World Cup's games start at 8 pm IST and go on until around 4 am IST. This is as inconvenient a time as you can get, for Indian audiences. It is for this reason that I'm fairly sure that this will be the last World Cup that the West Indies gets to host."
Jagadish will be a guest blogger on Rain, No Play during the World Cup and will give reports on the Indian team, one of the favourites to win it all.
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