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Players Are Now Setting Themselves Up For Life - You Can't Dig Them Out For That

Dimi Mascarenhas was an IPL pioneer - now, on the eve of the latest edition of the competition, he tells The Hawk that the cricket world has turned on its head since 2026.

27.03.26, 19:48 Updated 27.03.26, 19:50

Rich Edwards

Rich Edwards

This weekend, in the sweltering heat of Hyderabad, the 2026 edition of the Indian Premier League will begin in front of a global audience of billions.

Hampshire's first game of the season against Essex at the Utilita Bowl on Friday will seem positively parochial in comparison.

But one man who will have equal interest in both remains one of the key figures in the evolution of a tournament that, in many ways, no one saw coming.

Dimi Mascarenhas was the Hampshire captain in 2008, when Shane Warne worked his magic and persuaded the former England international that an IPL stint was a risk worth taking.

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