Only a Twenty20 international league can help salvage all forms of cricket

[sharifk]

Window could be found for IPL - Speed

Cricinfo staff

February 25, 2008

In what appears to be a softening of an earlier stance, Malcolm Speed, the ICC's chief executive, says that an annual window in cricket's increasingly over-packed calendar could be found for the Indian Premier League (IPL).

A meeting of the ICC chief executives' committee had recently decided that the Future Tours Programme (FTP) was in place till 2012 and that "no window would be considered or created [for the IPL] prior to that."

But Speed admitted that if seven ICC members supported it, and could work it into the schedule, a window could then be freed up for the tournament. He warned, however, that negotiating it would not be easy and the international calendar would have to be cleared from early April to mid-May, when the tournament is on. .....


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Since 7 votes are needed, BCB must vote against supporting any window for such domestic league and lobby for an international T20 event instead.

[pocha]

Originally Posted by sharifk
Since 7 votes are needed, BCB must vote against supporting any window for such domestic league and lobby for an international T20 event instead.

What is an international T20 event? We already have T20 WC.

Except for BD and Eng, players from all 7 countries are participating, so that will have the automatic support of 7 countries. But I am sure Ash and Aftab would get a call to play for Kolkata soon.

[sharifk]

Originally Posted by pocha
What is an international T20 event? We already have T20 WC.

Except for BD and Eng, players from all 7 countries are participating, so that will have the automatic support of 7 countries. But I am sure Ash and Aftab would get a call to play for Kolkata soon.

if you read my first post again, i have explained of the suggested international t20 league. ..t20 wc isn't an yearly event and it's participated by qualitified countries...whereas the suggested international t20 league is for major international cities of full member countries....this way bd may have one or more teams (e.g. for chittagong, etc.) playing home and away against other international cities of other member countries....

[pocha]

Originally Posted by sharifk
if you read my first post again, i have explained of the suggested international t20 league. ..t20 wc isn't an yearly event and it's participated by qualitified countries...whereas the suggested international t20 league is for major international cities of full member countries....this way bd may have one or more teams (e.g. for chittagong, etc.) playing home and away against other international cities of other member countries....

It is impossible to have an International league like you are proposing. Ind already have 8 teams. Bd (acc to you) will have 2-3 teams. Pak will have 3-4 teams. WI will have 4 teams. So in that way we will end up will 40-50 teams and it is IMPOSSIBLE to have round robin home-away league for 50 teams. It will take a whole year to conduct a international league like that

[sharifk]

Originally Posted by pocha
It is impossible to have an International league like you are proposing. Ind already have 8 teams. Bd (acc to you) will have 2-3 teams. Pak will have 3-4 teams. WI will have 4 teams. So in that way we will end up will 40-50 teams and it is IMPOSSIBLE to have round robin home-away league for 50 teams. It will take a whole year to conduct a international league like that

i have only tried to give a "what" type of answers and to answer "how" we probably will have to analyze and discussions need to take place among all the member countries....you can't say impossible without looking at all options such as limiting total numbers of teams or allowing teams to schedule a limited number of total matches (not to mention equal for everyone)....for example, nfl in the us limits the total number each team play to 16....plus a game like t20 can be played every day in the allocated two months....even something like double tripple headers a day, etc...there can be many ways to handle the league within 2 months....and this can allow big revenues to cities and players as well instead of all the money going into a single domestic league..