Confirmation: T20 Champions league bans ICL players

Finally some sort of clarification.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/7468041.stm

This seems perfectly fair to me - any team can qualify choosing any players within their domestic structure but those teams in the champions league cannot pick players involved in the ICL

BBC Sport understands the ECB could invite alternative counties to represent England if the leading ones insist on keeping the "rebel" players.

By 'alternative counties' they mean Essex,Middlesex & Somerset then...

and Rutland.

Cricket in Crisis.

Cricket in a Critical Pickle?

Thanks for the input guys...

England (well, a Scotsman in collaboration with the ECB) creates the game, and then allows itself to be dictated to by an outside party just because they have money. Cricket in crisis? Probably. These money men don't have a clue.

too many potential issues. i think the english teams will be replaced by pakistani ones by the looks of it

does pakistan have a proper t20 league?

Augustus wrote:England (well, a Scotsman in collaboration with the ECB) creates the game, and then allows itself to be dictated to by an outside party just because they have money. Cricket in crisis? Probably. These money men don't have a clue.

It's nothing like that though. This is a tournament played under the BCCI who have every right not to want ICL players playing in their tournament.

My main gripe was that they would ban teams for playing ICL players in our own domestic league, which would be out of their juristiction... but this seems to have cleared this up.

Also, there was an interesting interview on Sky News with the Kent chief exec who said that they probably would not play their ICL players in any 'Champions league' though would share any winnings amonsgt a pot which would include them.

That seems to be the most sensible way of doing things to me

The One wrote:too many potential issues. i think the english teams will be replaced by pakistani ones by the looks of it

does pakistan have a proper t20 league?

I think so, but I think there will be a lot of negotiations before that happens. Just a back up plan at this stage...

Augustus wrote:England (well, a Scotsman in collaboration with the ECB) creates the game, and then allows itself to be dictated to by an outside party just because they have money. Cricket in crisis? Probably. These money men don't have a clue.

They may have created the game, but they sure as heck don't own it.

JKLever wrote:

Augustus wrote:England (well, a Scotsman in collaboration with the ECB) creates the game, and then allows itself to be dictated to by an outside party just because they have money. Cricket in crisis? Probably. These money men don't have a clue.

It's nothing like that though. This is a tournament played under the BCCI who have every right not to want ICL players playing in their tournament.

My main gripe was that they would ban teams for playing ICL players in our own domestic league, which would be out of their juristiction... but this seems to have cleared this up.

Also, there was an interesting interview on Sky News with the Kent chief exec who said that they probably would not play their ICL players in any 'Champions league' though would share any winnings amonsgt a pot which would include them.

That seems to be the most sensible way of doing things to me

And that is it in a nutshell.

Modi/ BCCI has no farking business telling the counties what to do in their backyard.

Conversely they can make the rules for what they do in this league.

The One wrote:too many potential issues. i think the english teams will be replaced by pakistani ones by the looks of it

does pakistan have a proper t20 league?

there hasn't been a t20 tournament since 2006 but i guess they will use the 06 winners.

There is only 1 thing i want

ALL ICL players to be unbanned!

with so many former pakistani players in the icl, picking the 2006 winners could be a problem. pakistan would have to get a league together before september and get some new champions

PlanetPakistan wrote:There is only 1 thing i want

ALL ICL players to be unbanned!

they would have to break their contracts with the icl though. and we know what happened with yousuf, its all gone to court

they will have to wait till their contracts run out