Media baron Subhash Chandra's brainchild Indian Cricket League has finally started to distrurb people at BCCI. Suddenly more big names have come up and some big names have confirmed that they are joining ICL. After old horses like Kapil Dev, Sandeep Patil, Kiran More joined the core-committee of ICL, Brian Lara's entry gave the League shot in the arms.
Lara will captain one of the six teams that take part in the Twenty20 tournament which will roll, this November. Each team will have four international players, two senior Indian players and five young Indian cricket prospects. According to the sources, Australian Pace Guru Dennis Lillee is also expected to join the League soon. But the rumour which people find exciting is the prospect of two Indian senior players joining ICL. They were said to be in the World Cup team but dropped from the current Indian team touring England. May be people are talking about Virendra Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh. But I don't see them jeapardising their career by this move. They are going through a rough patch, but being a seasoned cricketer, they know that it's just a matter of few good outings in the field. And they have a long road ahead unlike Brian Lara who's already retired. Some more retired international names are also doing the rounds, Mcgrath and Shane Warne. And they have confirmed that the deal is being finalised. Shane Warne is said to be talking about an amount of 2 Million dollars as a package!
ICL is an interesting development. But retired international cricketers will never be able to add the excitement that an Indian cricketer can bring in. Our current cricketers have too much to lose if they rebel and subscribe to the new idea. ICL is certainly on a shaky ground. Only thing that excited these joinees is money. But money alone will not help them to take on an entity as big as BCCI!
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Sehwag and Bhajji to join Indian Cricket League?
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