The BCCI has the upper hand. The one threat to its ascendancy over ICL was the stand taken by a few counties on ICL players.
Following Modi's reiteration that any team fielding ICL men will be excluded from the The Twenty20 Championship League, it is obvious that with 5 million dollars at stake the counties will jettison the ICL players in their ranks.
It will also dissuade players who have contract to participate in the ICL's next edition.
Modi's announcement has ensured that ICL will be reduced to a Super Senior's or a veterans tournament. Surely, this is the end of ICL as we know it.
Following Modi's reiteration that any team fielding ICL men will be excluded from the The Twenty20 Championship League, it is obvious that with 5 million dollars at stake the counties will jettison the ICL players in their ranks.
It will also dissuade players who have contract to participate in the ICL's next edition.
Modi's announcement has ensured that ICL will be reduced to a Super Senior's or a veterans tournament. Surely, this is the end of ICL as we know it.
1 comment:
Not really.. a veterans tournament is not all that bad... watching retired cricketers going against each other in 20-20 cricket has its own charm.
Where else will u get Inzi, Lara, Cairns, Astle, Bond, Gillespie, Bevan?
In the future as the players fade away from the IPL, they maybe jumpoing ship to the ICL, for example McGrath and Gilchrist 3-4 years later...
Plus the Lahore Baadshahs have made it very popular in Pakistan. Speak to Pakistanis today and majority want to watch the Lahore Baadshahs in action rather than an IPL franchise...
And Pakistan is the 2nd largest cricket watching market.
Its like the WWF vs WCW in the 80s and 90s..
One is on top today, the other will keep fighting and get to the top after poaching some stars.
Then one will buy the other.
ICL has a future.
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