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Australian stars sign with IPL
Cricinfo staff
October 28, 2007

Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden are among an extensive list of Australia's frontline players who have signed with the Indian Premier League, according to a report in the Sunday Age. The paper said the BCCI had outlaid more than $2 million to secure the stars for the Twenty20 tournament.

Andrew Symonds, Brett Lee, Nathan Bracken, Michael Hussey, Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson were also reportedly on the list. The IPL has already attracted Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, with Simon Katich and Jason Gillespie also set to play.

The paper reported that Neil Maxwell, a player agent, will hand the groups's IPL contracts to Lalit Modi, the BCCI vice-president, in Dubai on Sunday. Next year's tournament is likely to take place in April, meaning several of the Australian-contracted players might be unavailable as the team will tour Pakistan and West Indies around that time.

Australia's states also have questions over who an Australian player would represent if their Indian franchise and their home state both reached the Champions League following the IPL. "We're still very much at the thrashing-out stage, but I've been led to believe that if that happens, someone like Brett Lee's first commitment would be to his home state," Dave Gilbert, the chief executive of Cricket New South Wales said.

"These sorts of things must be spelt out at the start, so there can't be any grey areas. It would be good to get this worked out as soon as possible."

As far as I can see, this Twenty20 stuff is going to take over at the expense of one-day cricket all over and Test cricket in nations outside Australia and England. The money generated is too much for these cricketers to knock back. Or will this just be a flash in the pan?

Aerie wrote:Or will this just be a flash in the pan?

Fingers crossed

I think 50 over cricket will die a slow death and be replaced by 20/20 but test cricket will always be here to stay.
An ASIAN breakaway from the ICC is on the cards though.
TOo much money and the ICC needs ASIA more than the other way around.

Compromise. 40 overs each, or if you MUST play 20/20, reduce to 7 batsmen each. That way, a LITTLE bit of thought might go in to the batting.

20/20 is here to stay

Rightly or wrongly

Its clearly a hit with the fans ... it doesn't sit well with some of the purists but others are going for it!

Look at the crowds to State 20/20 last season

The ICC are quickly going to loose control of governing cricket world wide if this is going to continue at a rapid rate. How can it be controlled though???

perhaps any one wishing to to play this league must be made unavailable for selection for the other forms of the game for the current first class season they wish to play the ICL in?


here is some comments made in the media

"It [Twenty20] is like chocolate which is bad for health and has to be given in small doses. At the same time chocolates are favoured by humans."
Navjot Sidhu gives his inimitable take on Twenty20 cricket


"Test cricket is like classical music which has survived since ancient ages. One-dayers are like film music that leaves people enthralled and T20 cricket is like disco and rap which provides occasional pleasure in short bursts."
Another typical Navjot Sidhu comment on cricket's various formats

"Test cricket is real cricket and 20/20 is absolute shit. You might as well pay money to watch someone facing a bowling machine". I like mine better.

20/20 BLOWS.

regards,

REB

Rik E Boy wrote:"Test cricket is real cricket and 20/20 is absolute s***t. You might as well pay money to watch someone facing a bowling machine". I like mine better.

20/20 BLOWS.

regards,

REB