G.I.Joe
International Coach
IPL doesn't involve the English team..
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IPL to be shifted outside India
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four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
I think they had some kind of an exclusivity deal with the ECB over cricket played in England. It was mentioned as one of the possible problems for Pakistan playing tests here.
I can't see Sky happy with the IPL in England clashing with their broadcasting of home test matches, and I wouldn't blame them tbh. And as they're probably (one of?) the biggest sources of funding for cricket in England, I don't think that pissing them off is a good thing. Even if it makes the BCCI our 'friends' again.
Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
have one question for BCCI if they play in England will they play in the county grounds where ICL players are involved????
Goughy
Hall of Fame Member
That is actually a great question.have one question for BCCI if they play in England will they play in the county grounds where ICL players are involved????
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Absolutely.
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Agreed. Personally, obviously I'd love to see it live. But this is a case of letting another board come in and clash their high-profile tournament with our home test series. Bring Pakistan tests here, fine. That's a case of helping out a board who has significant struggles. But this is totally different.
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Who will list the atrocities carried through in the Indian fan’s name? Let’s ask Shashank Manohar, president of the BCCI and perpetrator of the latest outrage. In a statement on Sunday, he said that the IPL would be taken overseas. Cranking up the ego war with the Government on the logistics of this IPL season, he apologised to the “people of India”, but comforted himself by saying that at least they’d now be able to watch the tournament on television. Really, Mr Manohar? Is this truly what’s behind this effort to start a bidding war between England and South Africa to host the IPL? Because if it is the Indian fan’s benefit that’s on the agenda, the BCCI’s latest announcement amounts to little less than the cricketing equivalent of high treason. It is nothing less than an attempt to abduct India’s favourite sport.
The government was ill-advised to have initially given the impression that India could not stage an election and a sport tournament. But to its credit, it hastened to offer cooperation in reworking the IPL schedule. By then the BCCI’s IPL czar, Lalit Modi, had made it a point of prestige, and heaven knows what else. Because every comment made by him since then — and we all know how much Modi likes to talk — has set new records for the crudeness with which he has staked ownership of Indian cricket. Cricket administrators in India hold a copyright to a certain kind of arrogance. For them Cricket has been a state within a state. But as long as the game has played on, they have been allowed to be. Now that they have gone one step too far, and challenged the legitimacy of the Indian state, the government must consider what the law is so that cricket can be retrieved from such thuggish adventurism.
The government was ill-advised to have initially given the impression that India could not stage an election and a sport tournament. But to its credit, it hastened to offer cooperation in reworking the IPL schedule. By then the BCCI’s IPL czar, Lalit Modi, had made it a point of prestige, and heaven knows what else. Because every comment made by him since then — and we all know how much Modi likes to talk — has set new records for the crudeness with which he has staked ownership of Indian cricket. Cricket administrators in India hold a copyright to a certain kind of arrogance. For them Cricket has been a state within a state. But as long as the game has played on, they have been allowed to be. Now that they have gone one step too far, and challenged the legitimacy of the Indian state, the government must consider what the law is so that cricket can be retrieved from such thuggish adventurism.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
You can say no....
TT Boy
Hall of Fame Member
It doesn't matter, Setanta (who have a miniscule number of subscribers compared to BSKYB) have the UK TV broadcasting rights for the IPL (until 2013).
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
Yeah too much of a can of worms to have it the uk you would have thought.
Shri
Mr. Glass
The sponsors might be Indian? Not sure on that one though.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Think you're right there. IIRC Sky made some threatening noises about one of the ODIs Scotland or Ireland staged being shown on (again, IIRC) the BBC a year or two back. Don't know what happened to resolve it in the end.
It could even be a bargaining chip for Sultana. They lost one of the EPL broadcast rights pacakges to Sky in the last bidding which has greatly reduced their viability, so it could be they offer up some of the UK-hosted IPL rights for more EPL games.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Just signed a fresh one I think, so could be ages. CBA to check tho.
Edged&Taken
U19 Vice-Captain
Modi told Telegraph Sport: "The IPL is a big competition. We would bring around $100 million of revenue to the British economy and anybody in a recession would want to have us."
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Quite true, I bet. Mr Clarke has already shown by the company he previously kept in 2020 circles that he's prepared to hitch up his skirt if the price is right, so I think the ECB would literally bend over backwards (or forwards) to accomodate the IPL.
Only have to look out my window to see the biggest problem tho; it's ****ing lashing it down here today.
Shri
Mr. Glass
Go Duckworth Lewis!
