Gilchrist joins chorus for IPL window

Comments: 32 

Posted by cricster67 on (March 12 2010, 14:28 PM GMT)

IPL window is a win-win all around. It will obviously help the IPL and the players. ICC will get cricket promo for free as IPL is already helping attract talent as well as audience. April/May, the target IPL window, is not a cricketing season in either Aus, NZ or Eng. Srilanka and Windies already participate in almost full IPL. ICC should not have been a stick-in-the-mud and have scheduled a world cup right on top of the dates.

Posted by arjun814 on (March 12 2010, 14:23 PM GMT)

Don't blame IPL for everything because of your hatred towards BCCI or Lalit Modi. I think Lalit Modi should stop running for the foreign players to come and play in IPL. IPL will grow globally like EPL,NBA,MLB with or without foreign plsyers. But the presence of the foreign players will definitely help it to grow big and fast. If they don't come it's not end of the world. Lalit Modi is running behind them becasue he is an a****** and he wants to make more and more money in the quickest possible time. Accept it or not IPL is here to stay.

Posted by arjun814 on (March 12 2010, 14:13 PM GMT)

IPL is a domestic tournamnet. So What?? What about EPL, Champions league, NFL,NBA and MLB? Are they not domestic tournaments. And does these so called domestic tournaments killing their respective sport? What is wrong in having 3 month window for IPL and Champions trophy, you still have 9 more months. Even if you have 3 month off season you still have 6 more months left. Every test playing nation must be made mandatory to play ATLEAST 9 test matches (3 series) during this 9 month period. Stop playing the meaningless bilateral 7 or 5 match oneday and 2 match T20 series . Every bilateral series should have atleast 3 Tests and just 3 ODI'S and NO T20's. In this way every test playing team plays at least 9 tests, 12-15 ODI'S. And the players playing in IPL will play 30 T20's. In this way we won't be missing any format of the cricket, players will make the money, cricket globalizes and it won't be an over kill even for the players. IPL is the best platform to globalise cricket.

Posted by RogerC on (March 12 2010, 12:49 PM GMT)

Five years from now, cricketers will play mainly franchise cricket in one country or other. And playing in IPL will be the opportunity for the very best cricketers only. Like Soccer, country-teams will play once in 4 years for a test cricket world cup and once in 4 years for one day world cup.

Posted by Mahatma_of_Great_Britain on (March 12 2010, 08:20 AM GMT)

To julianwalterinperu: EPL's a valuation of $12 and is around for nearly 2 decades. EPL's not even that exiciting when only 4 top team continues to win all the time. In contract, IPL's only around for 3 years and already values at $4 billion (double than last year) and soon to leave EPL far behind, both in terms of brand value, finance and fanbase, across the globe. With IPL, there's unpredictability, as you'd never know who's going to win and hence keeps the novelty factor intact. For Christ sake, within just 3 years IPL's already ahead of corporate giants like Samsung and Microsoft in the list of the most innovative companies in the world and is the 4th world's hottest sporting properties. With this rate, IPL will overtake even EPL or NBA.

Posted by Mahatma_of_Great_Britain on (March 12 2010, 08:18 AM GMT)

To julianwalterinperu: English county season? Does anyone give a toss, even if it's around for century? Even if it remains to be around for centuries, it'd remain virtually unheard of outside Britain. India's history of excelling and forging far ahead in the race, in whatsoever they do. USA's their first black president after 2 centuries and UK's their first female PM after 2 centuries, but India's got their first female PM within a decade of independence and within decade a member of minority leading the nation. Little over a decade ago, computer's virtually unheard of in India but now, their universities produce the hightest number of IT graduates, developing and exporting software across the globe.

Posted by cook on (March 12 2010, 07:38 AM GMT)

The problem I have for a window for the IPL, is I am a true cricket follower, but I as many others don't follow the IPL. Lots of countries don't care about it except for India, so why are the rest of the world supposed to suffer with no test cricket just because India wants the best players for their competition. I find it difficult to understand how the IPL are dictating to ICC what to do. It's supposed to be the other way around. People say IPL is a good thing, how is it good when many players have retired from international cricket so they can play in the IPL and get rich quick in a mickey mouse game.

Posted by attila_the_gorilla on (March 12 2010, 06:06 AM GMT)

The trouble is that the IPL has been allowed to just simply poach any player they want from their home associations, with no compensation. Bring in transfer fees or something of that sort.

Posted by   on (March 12 2010, 05:34 AM GMT)

Other boards need to be compensated initially by the BCCI to make room for IPL in their FTP's, but a window is certainly required to boost the reach & following of the IPL brand. With stars availability & tough competition for places the standard would certainly rise up, which would be an add on for selling the game on a global scale and popularizing the game in other non-cricketing nations. ICC need to act and resolve this ongoing rift at the Cricket Board's level when it comes to releasing players for IPL.

Posted by dhavall17 on (March 12 2010, 05:06 AM GMT)

To be very precise this is not even a domestic competition..this is a club affair..but those who hate this think if it goes to a higher level how much help could it be to even economies..how many more new jobs can be opened up nd to be very fair even at the lower levels..stop hating such events just because it belongs to some other country..why are ppl so scared of something new coming? and every country has top notch businessmen who can afford such money as ipl franchises..let money be not a barrier..the only thing is those who have closed their eyes and decided to hate it should open and try to see whole new beginning..