Can't help thinking it's a bit irrelevant. Imagine it's the Hundred teams with IPL ownership that are going to thrive financially as they've got access to big name Indian players - who in turn will bring in supporters from the indian community in decent numbers.
Think Warwickshire have fucked up partnering with the Birmingham City owners rather than an IPL franchise. As much as I'm against handing the domestic game to the IPL franchise owners I'm not sure a bunch of yanks is the better option.
Surely with the demographic make up of Birmingham something like Birmingham Super Kings would have got people through the door.