Even as the cash-flooded Indian Premier League is about to start on April 18, 2008, the international cricket schedule faces big threat. With players from different parts of the world expected to participate in the two month cricket extravaganza, there are concerns that Australia’s West Indies tour, Bangladesh team’s Pakistan visit, New Zealand tour of [...]
The ICC plans to sign a contract with BCCI to ensure that international cricket schedules are not jeopardized by IPL. According to the contract, IPL must respect international schedules and not take on players that do not have board clearance to take part in IPL. This would include players who have been retired for up [...]
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 [...]