As per the statement of Australian Team Captain Pat Cummins, the IPL has ended the monopoly of international cricket on players' time. He feels that going forward, it will be very hard to convince players to give priority to their national duty over franchise cricket. Cummins agrees that Trent Boult's decision to deny a New Zealand central contract for lucrative T20 leagues around the world has been in the offing since the IPL changed the complexion of the game a decade ago. Cummins said before the World Test Championship Final against India at The Oval starting June 7 that "it's been coming for a while, but I think it is here now."

He further said that "international cricket doesn't have a monopoly on players' time, like it did in the past. The IPL changed that a decade ago, but there's just going to be more and more content that creeps in, so I think we've got to be proactive about that." He wants his teammates to consider the national duty bigger than anything else, but said that would be a challenge in these times of cash-rich franchise-based leagues, as he said, "We have to keep making playing for Australia as special as we can, keeping a high performance to get every single player wanting to play for Australia as much as we can. That's going to be the challenge.

He also added, "I think it's upon us now, and we've got to start thinking about that quite deeply. "If we fast-forward a few years, a 12-month international calendar might look a little bit different.