A 'Champions League of Cricket'

Well, just saw on the news today that the English cricket Board is planning to Launch its own version of a T20 league called the 'English Premier League' (the English are'nt the most imaginative people are they). So that means we now have 3 professional leagues popping up in the matter of a year. And there could be more- the Aussie board is now threatened with the possibility of players retiring early to take up the IPL, who knows they may launch their own league.
So what does this all mean for Cricket, I guess cricket is going to get richer, possibily more exciting, and definetly more competitive with countries not just competing for laurels and trophies but also for the prize of most exciting league and bigger share of the ever growing cricketing pie. It might also mean that Test Cricket might lose its charm ( particulary if we have drab series like India -SA) , and even ODI cricket will be threatened. The purists will continue to cry and claim the decline in technical standards (some idiots still claim that cricket is a Gentleman's Game), but the viewers will definetly get a more fun version of cricket. After all as Harsha Bhogle said- "The purpose is to get the ball to the boundary, how it gets there does not matter" and boundaries and sixes will be always be there with T20. And there is a possibility that the new form of cricket will attract more teams towards cricket (that however does involve the possibility of the Americans getting involved,how irritating that would be).
But the most exciting possibilty is that of a "Cricket Champions League", akin to the UEFA Champions League in european football, you could have the winners of individual leagues taking on each other. Who knows maybe cricket could get more professional and move in the football direction with clubs taking precedence over country. Whatever happens Cricket is going to change dramatically over the next few years and to think it all happened because Subash Chandra and Zee got pissed off for losing the TV rights for Indian Cricket.