DLF IPL Twenty20 biggest threat to West Indies, says cricket board president Julian Hunte
The DLF IPL Twenty20 championship is slowly facing flak from some cricket control boards. Various Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials have flayed the IPL for the cancellation of Australia’s tour of Pakistan.
Now the West Indies Cricket Board president Julian Hunte has expressed concern over the impact of IPL and ICL on cricket in the Caribbean.
The concerns mainly stem from the fact that the IPL and ICL schedules will clash with West Indies tour of Australia and Sri Lanka.
Chris Gayle (Kolkata Knight Riders, $800,000), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (Bangalore, $200,000) and Ramnaresh Sarwan (Mohali $225,000) have signed up for IPL.
It is exactly due to this that ICC is speaking about allowing a window for IPL schedule, though it remains to be seen how this works out.
Julian Huntye was blunt when he said IPL is the second biggest threat for West Indian cricket. The first, he said, was an alleged move to first tier of Test playing countries to top seven, which would leave West Indies with just Zimbabwe and Bangladesh to play.