CLT20 format turning away the fans
Dileep Premachandran, writing in the National , says having an idea is one thing, executing it properly quite another.
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
Dileep Premachandran, writing in the National, says having an idea is one thing, executing it properly quite another.
With only the cricket boards of India, Australia and South Africa having the keys to the safe, the competition itself is hopelessly skewed in favour of teams from their countries. And even within that privileged circle, the Indian Premier League (IPL) sides stand apart.
... The more the number of IPL teams in the fray, the lesser the chance of quality players turning out for their domestic teams. Those sides are compensated monetarily but the fact the IPL franchises invariably get precedence means an unequal playing field. In theory, a player could choose his home side. In practice, he knows that it jeopardises his next lucrative IPL contract.
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo