ECB tells England players to forget Indian Premier League
Kevin Pietersen and other leading England players face potential collision with the ECB over their desire to cash in on the riches of the Indian Premier League (IPL) next year after Giles Clarke, the board chairman, said that participation would be a risk too far before the 2009 Ashes.
Sean Morris, the chief executive of the Professional Cricketers’ Association, accused Clarke of behaving like King Canute in his hardline stance against the competition, reiterated yesterday at the official launch of the new season, which begins at Lord’s on Thursday. The inaugural IPL starts eight days later.
Speaking in The Times on Saturday, Pietersen described as “ridiculous” the fact that England-contracted players will not be involved and others have approached Morris to find out more about the tournament. But they will be unable to participate unless they are given a No Objection Certificate from the ECB.
April 16th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
IPL - cricket and prostitution finally come together. The problem is with the majority of teams being Indian, it’s going to be hard to determine a winner, I mean the losing team will whinge and blame everything else but their own performance and then threaten to walk out of the league, or will simply buy officials. If this works like it did all summer in Australia then the OTHER team will do the same and we’ll get nowhere. Well I’m sure there is enough money in Indian cricket to sort it all out.
April 18th, 2008 at 11:01 am
ipl is surely gonna rock….kolkata knight riders are going to be the winners…
May 15th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
my hot fv kolkata knight riders……. best of srk