Yes. What part of the
IPL did you not understand? Its Indian. Deal with it. We're going to stuff it with Indian players until the cows come home. Surely your remote control possesses an OFF button? You make very peculiar arguments.
And that is a ridiculous opinion.
India have every right to organize their own competition. Demanding that the IPL be structured as an international competition is like demanding that the Sheffield Shield or County championship become an international competition.
Teams qualify. Teams participate. Every qualifying state/franchise gets a guaranteed participation fee. Winner gets prize of $5 million. Pretty simple. Whats not to understand?
Oh snap. We seem to be going around in circles. Let me clarify my position on the matter based on what has happened since the Twenty20 WC in SA which resulted in the ICL & IPL starting up:
- Firstly. As i've stated since the beginning. Given that the ICC is structed in the foolish state, in which it does not have
TOTAL control over ALL governing matters & the BCCI has all this power. It will ALWAYS lead to problems.
The first major problem was the ICL, being created. In no other sport could, can any Entrepreneur type establishment decide they want to establish tournament & have players running towards it. But given that the BCCI controls the ICC, when the ICL intially commenced, no one really cared given that their was a genuine non-attraction towards T20cricket & the fact that retired/out of favour national players went to it.
- Secondly. Given that the BCCI does have all this power in the game. After the Twenty20 world cup last year, it is clear that they took advantage of the
BUZZ that was created during the T20WC & established the IPL.
All the boards where behind the idea & while most fans found the whole thing very exciting, given how glamorous it seemed at the inception. NO ONE, really looked at the long term effects nor payed keen attention to the rules the IPL set-up & it was shown with the situations of MoYo & Bond.
So in essence what happened there, with the BCCI in control of the ICC. The ICL was allowed to be established lawlessly & then with the obvious revolution of Twenty20's that occured after the WC in SA. The IPL was created to counter it & suddenly the ICL was considered rebel, thus costing NZ & PAK two key players who just wanted to earn some extra clash while playing for their nations.
- Thirdly. Given as i just said, given the BCCI has ALL THIS CONTROL in the world game (i hope my repetition of this phrase makes this point clear). It is clear they IPL should have been created to benefit the
ENTIRE CRICKET COMMUNITY, making it the EPL of cricket. India would have still made massive profit.
That 4-player per-game rule is an absolute farce & it should be scrapped. Since it is clear that if all the international players decided the hell with IPL, it wouldn't become like the the normal T20 tournament like the ones in England, AUS & SA.
So in the current state, although players will still make big dollars in the future. With the BCCI in control, its worrying since it is clear they can still harm the game in the future since they won't let anything get in their way.
On the Champions League. As i mentioned in my first point. Given the ICC's inadequate structure those are the kind of wild tournaments that should not be existing along with Standford (although he helped to revive enthusiam in WI cricket) & potentially that farce T20 competition over here in 2010. Just ONE MAJOR T20 tournament is required in modern day cricket, given all the jam packed schedules.
The IPL was made for us, we're paying for all of these players, they represent our cities, and to put it bluntly, if you have a problem with it, go curl up in a ball and cry yourself to sleep. I don't like talking to people like this, but then stop making statements like that which are a plain and simple insult to our players. I don't care particularly for English domestic cricketers, who are as unknown to me as Indian domestic players are to you, but I'm not going to criticize the ECB for employing these 'unknown' players when they get their EPL off the ground, so show some respect.
