Indian Premier League

[Perm]

Yeah, pretty much my point. This thread is for discussing the IPL itself, others can be made for slagging it off etc. Like the Twenty20 WC offical threads were for discussing matches and the event and other threads like T20IBS and others could discuss the concept on a whole and people who didn't like it could complain about it there and not ruin it for everyone who did enjoy it.

Ah, cheers. Must have misread your first post. (Y)

 

[Burgey]

Thanks. Overall, it's a nice sum of money for ALL the players that have been signed!

With all due respect, that may be the biggest understatement ever posted on this forum.

 

[masterblaster]

Good to see Greg Shippherd coaching Delhi. He's done great with the Victorian side here in the local Twenty20 competition. With McGrath, Vettori and Sehwag I would back Delhi to go very far in this competition.

 

[Pratters]

It hasn't been reported in this thread and the news is about 24 hours but:

Le Roux and Leipus have joined Kolkata.

This is excellent news for us. Not only do we have Buchanan, we also have an excellent support staff now which is very important. Go Kolkata!

 

[silentstriker]

Wow, Dhoni makes more than Steven Gerrard per week in the IPL...(and for a lot less work too).

 

[silentstriker]

The Herald can reveal that a group of major cricketing figures from the subcontinent, led by members of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, will ask the ICC to create an annual window for the Twenty20 tournament, and they will receive support from Cricket Australia. The BCCI will also ask England's cricket board to rework its county cricket calendar so its players can participate.

A co-founder of the IPL, Inderjit Singh Bindra - who is tipped to become the ICC's chief executive from this June - said the world body would have no choice but to comply if most of its members request a gap.

"The ICC works for the member countries and if the majority of members are appealing for a gap for the IPL, then the ICC must go by that," Bindra said. "We have had approaches from other boards. There is pressure from the players also, they want to play in it.

"Also there is a lot of interest in the tournament. It will do the optimum good to have the largest availability of players for the IPL, and it will keep the players and boards happy."

Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has stated that he would support an annual window for the IPL, as has Australian captain Ricky Ponting.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/cricket/icc-told-to-make-room-for-ipl/2008/02/22/1203467387504.html

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

The BCCI will also ask England's cricket board to rework its county cricket calendar so its players can participate.

 

[silentstriker]

Yea, I was surprised at that too.

 

[superkingdave]

Doubt it will happen anytime soon...hasn't ICC already said the FTP is sorted till 2011 and they aren't going to change it? Vis a vis the English situation...domestic cricket is hardly the issue, none of the players that don't play international cricket are going to vagueley interest the IPL and the only way we can keep up with the FTP is by playing tests in april/may

 

[social]

Money talks - sling a few quid at the counties for compo and they'll lap the idea up

 

[social]

Wow, Dhoni makes more than Steven Gerrard per week in the IPL...(and for a lot less work too).

An article today quoted someone in the IPL as saying that Chennai would be happy if Dhoni played 6 cameo innings and kept wickets in all games - that should be sufficient to get a return on their investment

Imagine the owners of Liverpool only requiring that Gerrard perform in a low percentage of games

Another big difference is that Gerrard actually cares about the team he plays for

Ricky Ponting will spend a maximum of 10 days with his team - only thing he'll give a toss about is whether the cheque clears

 

[Goughy]

Money talks - sling a few quid at the counties for compo and they'll lap the idea up

Unlikely. The Counties are fiercely independent of even the top people at the ECB let alone a foreign body.

Also once the space has been created, the money would stop coming after a couple of years and it would be impossible to reclaim that time back into the season.

It is possible in the long term future but at the moment this is still essentially just a 6 week commercial bash around.

 

[superkingdave]

Money talks - sling a few quid at the counties for compo and they'll lap the idea up

The county's would i am sure, but none of their players would interest the IPL. There's only a few, if that many (probably only Pietersen and Flintoff) that would be in demand and they are contracted to the ECB

 

[Jamee999]

If Katich gets a contract, I'd imagine that Collingwood would be able to.

 

[silentstriker]

An article today quoted someone in the IPL as saying that Chennai would be happy if Dhoni played 6 cameo innings and kept wickets in all games - that should be sufficient to get a return on their investment

Imagine the owners of Liverpool only requiring that Gerrard perform in a low percentage of games

Another big difference is that Gerrard actually cares about the team he plays for

Ricky Ponting will spend a maximum of 10 days with his team - only thing he'll give a toss about is whether the cheque clears

Irrelevant how much he 'cares'. What matters is how he performs. If people do badly, they won't get another contract. If they do well, then who gives a toss how much they 'care'. Does Donovan McNabb really 'care' about the Eagles? I doubt it. They're paying him, and he's playing.

 

[social]

Irrelevant how much he 'cares'. What matters is how he performs. If people do badly, they won't get another contract. If they do well, then who gives a toss how much they 'care'. Does Donovan McNabb really 'care' about the Eagles? I doubt it. They're paying him, and he's playing.

The Eagles are his principal employer - he performs or he's out and his value on the open deteriorates markedly PLUS he basically has nowhere else to go other than the NFL. Bottom line, he has to care.

Ponting is in a totally different category - he makes millions with or without the IPL.

 

[Jamee999]

Do players get bonuses for getting to the semis, or the final?

 

[silentstriker]

The Eagles are his principal employer - he performs or he's out and his value on the open deteriorates markedly PLUS he basically has nowhere else to go other than the NFL. Bottom line, he has to care.

Ponting is in a totally different category - he makes millions with or without the IPL.

Again, irrelevent. Will he perform for his IPL team, or won't he?

 

[social]

Again, irrelevent. Will he perform for his IPL team, or won't he?

Care factor for his temporary team-mates and home is probably minimal.

Ego will make him do it plus the realisation that his team can sell him and he'll earn a truck-load more for a few days of hit and giggle each year that will have zero bearing on his career.

The NFL and Premier League are totally different - the players earn a lot but a great motivation is to play the game they love against the best in leagues that they have always dreamt of participating in

That is hardly the case with the IPL - none of the foreign players have dreamt of playing for an Indian city in a slogathon. It's all about the bucks

 

[silentstriker]

Ego will make him do it.

From the perspective of the owner and from the the fans, that's what what I care about. I don't care why he does it, what he thinks of it, what he does outside it. You are bringing irrelevent considerations into the argument.

As long as they perform, no one could give a toss what the overpaid brats think about anything anyway.

That is hardly the case with the IPL - none of the foreign players have dreamt of playing for an Indian city in a slogathon. It's all about the bucks

Still don't get what that has to do with anything. And I bet if this continues for 10 years, you'll see kids wanting to play for an Indian city.