Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Players may choose money over country

International Cricket is in danger of losing its top players to the Indian Premier League (IPL) unless countries agreed to let them play. I feared about players may tern their backs on their national teams because IPL gives more money for the players. I think there are some dangers , if any player approaching end of his international career anyway, being able to play 44 days and stay in one form of game, I’m sure is very attractive . Particularly if they have families and they are getting a bit sick and tired of travel you do with international cricket, I am sure that is appealing to some. Making more money and spending most of the year with the family by playing in the IPL instead of the respective country could start to look pretty attractive to some blocks and lot of cricketers look at it that way. I think its really dangerous for the game…Twenty20 cricket has been big at domestic-level for most of this decades in England, then South Africa and Australia but why not their cricket boards are chosen this type of business?. Be careful about implications of the private leagues-IPL and ICL.

Anas:ck