Re: 'Don't skip IPL,' Sri Lankan Board told

[taipan]

Nice double standards here.

Its ok for politics to get involved when its for the good of the IPL, but in the situation of Zimbabwe it was purely cricketing and politics were not allowed to be involved.

Ban India.

Wonder what our Indian friends have to say about this.

[holcs]

Nice double standards here.

Its ok for politics to get involved when its for the good of the IPL, but in the situation of Zimbabwe it was purely cricketing and politics were not allowed to be involved.

Ban India.

Wonder what our Indian friends have to say about this.

The usual wash their hands of it thing!

Seems the block are happy for it to be one way but not the other I suppose! Pretty standard I guess!

[taipan]

Was hoping we would get the normal double talk

[holcs]

Nice double standards here.

Its ok for politics to get involved when its for the good of the IPL, but in the situation of Zimbabwe it was purely cricketing and politics were not allowed to be involved.

Ban India.

Whether SL send their players to England or not doesn't concern the BCCI. Nor does the internal workings going on in SL. Same as in Zim. And they're right in this instance.

I thought the BCCI were part of the ICC, which in turn makes them partly responsible for the development and furtherment of the game of cricket internationally?

Seems that in the Zim issue politics were not taken into account at the request of the BCCI led block. Interestingly in this instance where the IPL is involved politics are allowed to intervene for the detriment of international cricket........

[doremi]

The ICC have authority over SL, not the BCCI. This isn't any of their business at all. They're not the US yet, thankfully.

And politics aren't being taken into account this time either. Same as in the Zim situation.

[holcs]

The ICC have authority over SL, not the BCCI. This isn't any of their business at all. They're not the US yet, thankfully.

And politics aren't being taken into account this time either. Same as in the Zim situation.

Umm if i'm not mistaken, the SPORTS MINISTER for the Sri Lankan Government is involved - this isn't politics then????

And yes the ICC has an authority, the ICC is also strangely made up of a block of nations whom back the BCCI's money making machine, and therefore strangely will be very quite on this issue, as opposed to the Zim issue.

Wash Hands - knew it was coming.

[The One]

The ICC have authority over SL, not the BCCI. This isn't any of their business at all. They're not the US yet, thankfully.

i disagree. get blamed for everything and looked at as the only saviour of every situation as well. sounds like the US

[philcric]

Nice double standards here.

Its ok for politics to get involved when its for the good of the IPL, but in the situation of Zimbabwe it was purely cricketing and politics were not allowed to be involved.

Ban India.

Wonder what our Indian friends ...

There are none.

[furriner]

English and Australian forummers on this thread - can we accuse you of chips on shoulderitis? After all it's what fans from the subcontinent get blamed for a lot.

[JKLever]

Ban Furriner

[Lara Lara Laughs]

If they're not sending their best team - f*ck off. Which is a shame because I was looking forward to seeing Mendis vs KP.

[furriner]

Rushdie lover.

[taipan]

English and Australian forummers on this thread - can we accuse you of chips on shoulderitis? After all it's what fans from the subcontinent get blamed for a lot.

Yep, carry on.

[embee]

6 of the 8 teams have Lankans ...and i think they all pretty well covered for internationals (bar perhaps KXIP who have Sanga and Jayawardene)...I cant see that the IPL needs to keep the Lankans when they have international commitments ...I thonk SL is trying to get away from having to pay their players extra by "allowing" them to play IPL

[JKLever]

I thonk thats possibly true....

[SG]

Doubts resurface over Sri Lanka's England tour

Doubts over whether Sri Lanka's Test series against England in May 2009 will actually take place have resurfaced after The Times reported that Durham, who host the second Test, have been told by the ECB to hold fire on selling tickets.

The series clashes with the latter stages of the IPL, and a number of the Sri Lankan squad have signed lucrative contracts to play in that. Sri Lanka Cricket, however, stands to earn around £1 million from the England matches and is keen for them to go ahead. The tour was arranged earlier this year after the scheduled visit by Zimbabwe was scrapped by the ECB.

Although the itinerary has been announced and both boards have said the trip will go ahead, there remain major question marks over who exactly Sri Lanka will send. If it is a weakened side then there would be concerns about the viability, not to mention the credibility, of the series.

Around a dozen players maintain that they were given assurances that they could honour their IPL commitments before the tour was agreed.

The ECB's concerns that the series will be treated as of secondary importance will have been heightened by comments from Gamini Lokuge, Sri Lanka's sports minster, following a meeting with SLC officials earlier this week. "I want the contracted players to honour their commitments with the IPL," he said. "I don't want the tour to England be called off. But the team on English soil can have non-contracted IPL players."

Earlier this month, Arjuna Ranatunga, the interim committee chief of SLC, insisted the tour would go ahead. "We have a memorandum of understanding with the England and Wales Cricket Board for the tour and we must honour that," he said.

[JKLever]

Makes you proud to be Indian, no doubt....

[THICKEDGE]

Sri Lanka pay the lowest wages to their international cricketers of any of the real test match nations so a big IPL pay day is hard to ignore for the name players. They should never agreed to be the Ashes aperitif.

[SG]

Makes you proud to be Indian, no doubt....

Irrelevant to present discussion.

BTW why should SL players leave their booty from IPL? Just because ECB wants to fill in the void created by Zim siatuation? So that SLC gets 1m pounds from ECB for this tour?

[SG]

so a big IPL pay day is hard to ignore for the name players.

True.

Would Eng players (or for that matter any other country's players) have reacted any differently in this situation? I doubt it.

[JKLever]

Makes you proud to be Indian, no doubt....

Irrelevant to present discussion.

BTW why should SL players leave their booty from IPL? Just because ECB wants to fill in the void created by Zim siatuation? So that SLC gets 1m pounds from ECB for this tour?

Because test cricket should be the highest honour and level you can achieve in the game? And should be above a barrell load of cash?

Is this so difficult to understand why people think the BCCI in creating this monster are fecking over the rest of world cricket?

Ban India

[JKLever]

so a big IPL pay day is hard to ignore for the name players.

True.

Would Eng players (or for that matter any other country's players) have reacted any differently in this situation? I doubt it.

Of course not, humans are greedy.

I don't blame SL's players in the least - I blame cricket administrators in India

[SG]

I blame cricket administrators in India

Yep, how could they not foresee that Eng would be idle during their 2nd edition of IPL and hence ECB would need SL to fill in that void.

[JKLever]

After all the IPL is more important than test cricket isn't it....

It must be - it's got artificial made up teams a year old and a shed load of money thrown at it.

[SG]

After all the IPL is more important than test cricket isn't it....

Which event was conceived earlier?

IPL or Eng-SL test series?

Which event was signed for by SL players first?

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