IPL not coming to UK

The decision process about bringing, or not bringing, IPL to the UK raised a number of discussions including whether it would actually draw the crowds bearing in mind that this would be the most spectacular players in world cricket but that they'd be playing in matches of limited significance to much of the population. Bearing in mind the size of the crowds last year (averaging 58,000 against 'Premiership' football's 35,900) I wonder why they didn't just move the date of the Indian election - surely it would have been a vote winner.

Of course we all know now that, since the weather in April in The UK was the decisive factor, we are in for a heatwave. Bring it on but let's make some early season fixtures for ourselves too.