English cricketers could play in 2010 IPL
English Player’s Association claims that at last country’s board is willing to allow the players to play in the last two weeks of Indian Premier League’s 2009 edition.
According to Professional Cricketers’ Association chief Sean Morris, ECB will consider the matter and the players can participate in the later stages of Twenty20 tournament in 2010.
“I think they will play. It is going to be driven by market forces, the players will go and play Twenty20 cricket. It makes a lot of sense to allow them to play based on the fact that we’ve got the World Twenty20 coming up five weeks later,” said Morris.
“Don’t we want our best player competing in the leading domestic tournament at that time? The communication between the England players and the ECB has increased,” he added.
Morris said that Players will gain only benefits from the twenty20 tournament. He also said that there are many positive points when seen players point of view.
“If you’ve got a family and you’ve been travelling the world for 10 months of the year and you’ve got the option to go an earn twice as much money for five weeks work, no one is going to reject that,” he said.