Counties free to pick ICL players

Can someone clarify this - would ICL players be allowed to play in the Chumpions league thingy or not?
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/india/content/current/story/355367.html

Seems full of contradictions to me...

not really. they havent decided whether teams with icl players will be allowed in the champions league, and counties who pick these players are now doing so at their own risk. he's saying he cant make the decisions for the counties

They would be better off not inviting any English teams in that case to be honest.

There is simply no way an English county who has played an ICL player in the domestic T20 would dare to drop them from this tournament.

The county concerned would open themselves up for the player suing them for restraint of trade. They are sh*t scared of this, which is why all those ICL players are allowed to play here.

I hope common sense prevails and that ICL players are given an amnesty for the first ICL tournament. Especially considering the English domestic T20 started without any rules for ICL participation drawn up.

yeah lets see what they do. or maybe the english sides will come in for the second year without any currently playing icl players

I want to see this thing go to the court and hope that ALL the ICL players get unbanned.

What a mess.

Reading it, he says that the BCCI cannot tell counties who they can and can't pick.

HOWEVER:

He also says that for the Champions League they haven't decided what they are doing with the ICL players and will decide later. Couple that comment with the thunderqunt Modi's comments = shambles!!

Zat wrote:What a mess.

Not least because I didn't take your bet that Modi would definitely get his own way.

Dammit.

holcs wrote:the thunderqunt Modi's

a real CJTQ

lardbucket wrote:

holcs wrote:the thunderqunt Modi's

a real CJTQ

As they say in Norf'ampton ...

Word!

PlanetPakistan wrote:I want to see this thing go to the court and hope that ALL the ICL players get unbanned the entire game of T20 is banished from the face of the Earth for all eternity.

Fixed.

Seriously though, Pawar puts the hun in thunderqunt

The latest from the BCCI is that the English clubs will be excluded because of their ICL players.

http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/current/story/355733.html

Dello wrote:

Zat wrote:What a mess.

Not least because I didn't take your bet that Modi would definitely get his own way.

Dammit.

Looks like TQ Modi will get his own way and I will win the bet.

from the cricinfo article linked to above...
Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman and commissioner, had previously told Cricinfo that teams with players associated with ICL would not be invited for the tournament "under any circumstance", even if these players are dropped just for the event.

And I'm yet to see anything that contradicts that statement.

Huzzah! I didn't take that bet.

Good times.