D/L wrote:Words fail me for once.
D/L wrote:Words fail me for once.
braveneutral wrote:
Do I worry for the domestic game, particularly that of the English one? Yes, but not hugely. The number of players missing this season is not huge, and the effect of their absence is often over exaggerated. A few changes could be made by the ECB themselves to ensure that this effect is even smaller. For one, they could cut the number of games that are played in their own T20 competition. This may be at a small cost to their finances, but if they could arrange a format similar to the Champions Trophy, they may be able to ask for more money per game in the television rights. It would be shorter, but more intense, with more at stake and would mean that more games in the longer format could be played later in the season. Another option is to play the mid-length competition at the beginning of the season. There seems to be more and more focus placed on the County Championship and the FLT20, if the CB40 were to take place earlier, I don’t think that the counties would mind too much, neither, in all probability, would the fans. This would offset the loss of players to the IPL and would make the County Championship as strong as possible.
Cricket is changing, for better or worse, but we the fans and those in power need to adapt and embrace these changes. The IPL is becoming cricket’s Super Bowl and instead of going the way of other sports where only the premier competition thrives, we need to make the changes to ensure that the whole game can continue to flourish. Test matches are the blood of the cricket fan, but we need the heart, the IPL to keep it pumping.
mikesiva wrote:
IMHO, it's up to Shah to decide who he wants to play for, and if at 34 he sees playing T20 tournaments as a better way of earning money than playing county cricket, then that's his decision, and it's probably a financially wise one. There are players like Scott Styris, Dirk Nannes and Kevon Cooper who are already concentrating primarily on the T20 leagues, so Shah would just be joining them. I think it's a good thing that cricketers have another way to earn a living - competition is good.
mikesiva wrote:Even some England players are becoming restive....
http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/con ... 04881.html
"If you ask any Englishman or Australian, 'would you rather score a T20 hundred or an Ashes hundred?' I know which one most people would go with," Prior told the BBC. "But guys are going to start looking at it. I know for a fact that players want to play in the IPL. You can't get away from the fact that there is an enormous amount of money at stake. I'm employed by the ECB, so I do what the ECB says right now. If that's when the Test matches are, then that's when the Test matches are. My priority is playing Test cricket for England and when I am needed to play Test cricket for England I will play. The IPL and these Twenty20 competitions are not going away. People love them and the players enjoy playing in them, so there are going to be more and more people getting frustrated at the lack of opportunity to play in the IPL. So things may have to change in time."
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