All about T20 cricket

If we go by the words of commissioner of Indian Premier League Lalit Modi, the rebel cricket league ICL do not confirm to the established rules related to world cricket. According to Mr. Modi, the future prospects of Indian Cricket League getting the official sanction from the ICC as well as BCCI are near to impossible.

Due to the tight schedule of the cricketers and lack of alternative window for adjusting the international calendar, the task of recognizing ICL from its season 2 seems impracticable.

In addition, Lalit Modi is also the vice president of the BCCI apart from being on the group of International Cricket Council especially setup for re-evaluating rules regarding all forms of cricket. He also said that all the tournaments of the same category will be treated in the same way as ICL have been dealt with.

Elaborating further on the future plans related to T20 cricket, Modi said that final two teams from IPL first edition will take part in the inaugural 2020 champions’ league. The best two teams, i.e. the winner Rajasthan Royals captained by Shane Warne & Chennai Super Kings led by M.S Dhoni have confirmed their participation in the league. 20-20 Champions league is going to begin from 3rd of December, 2008 till 10th of December.

Elaborating further on guidelines related to transfer of players for the upcoming season of Indian Premier League will start from the month of April in 2009. The auctions for the season 2 of IPL will start from 6th of February in Mumbai.

The profits and transfer fee can be mutually be negotiated between players and the owner of the franchise team. An additional sum of over two million dollars will be awarded to the interested franchise for the fulfilment of the transfer of players both domestic and international.

The apex Cricket governing body of the world cricket made an appeal to play the upcoming test matches between India and Australia without any tension or unfriendliness. The principal body for the game of cricket wants to make sure that all the bad blood created due to some untoward incidents in Australia last summer must be left behind and cricket must be played in a true gentleman spirit.

The International Cricket Council(ICC) kept its promise by not nominating umpires Mark Benson and Steve bucknor to officiate in the forthcoming test series due to begin from 9th of October. The twosome gave some controversial decisions in the contentious test match played in Sydney and which almost forced the Indian cricket team to pull out of the left over test matches. The match also the ugly head of racial discrimination being raised once again.

Before the start of the test match in Sydney, the two playing teams agreed on a principle that the teams will go by the version of the fielder who has got hold of the catch. However, Ricky Ponting made it clear about the functionality of this principle in the test series to be played.

According to ICC roster, Asad Rauf and Rudi Koertzen from Pakistan & South Africa will be umpiring in the tests to be played at Mohali & Bangalore whereas Aleem Dar & Billy Bowden will officiate in test matches at Nagpur & Delhi. Match referee for the whole test series would be Chris Broad from England.

Legendary Pakistani Cricketer Inzamam-Ul Haq aka Inzy has told PCB (Pakistan cricket Board) to take some lessons from Srilanka Cricket on ICL (Indian Cricket League) issue.

It is interesting that Srilanka Cricket board has lifted the ban from the rebel Cricketer who has joined Zee promoted Unofficial T20 cricket league as called by BCCI.
This is a major setback to BCCI and ICC as this two monopolistic bodies are trying to suppress the ICL.

BCCI fears that if this ICL has been recognized then they will loose their monopoly over the game and they will no longer rule the game.

But the good news is that slowly the cricket boards of different countries are accepting ICL and recognizing it and they are not going the ICC or BCCI way to suppress the competition in the market. They all think that this is a great initiative by Zee to promote the game and will benefit it game in both the short and long term.

Inzy told PCB that its time for Pakistan Cricket Board to decide what they want to do, they should not do those things which are decided by BCCI or ICC. He further advocated that cricket is the livelihood for all the players and joining ICL is not a crime.

ICL has given a serious Jolt to the Cricket world and mainly the ICC. In a dramatic incident majority of Bangladesh cricket players has joined Indian Cricket League “the unofficial T20 cricket league” as termed by ICC.

This is an irreparable damage to Bangladesh, who is currently going through a bad time. Gone are the golden days for Bangladesh cricket when it was best known as the surprise package for everyone, they have stunned the best teams in the cricketing world.

But this is a great setback to the Bangladesh Cricket at the time when they are struggling to get the test status from quite some time. And it is a even more worst thing for ICC which is having a monopoly in the cricketing world and it is now awarding legal status to the ICL ( Indian Cricket League) promoted by Zee group.

Aftab Ahmed , Dhiman Gosh and Habibul Bashar, the Pilar of Bangladesh cricket are no more with the team and the future of Bangladesh cricket looms in danger.

This might be the just beginning of the divide in the cricketing world and all this is because of some wrong people with wrong attitude. Lastly I would say that what ever happens, at the end of the day we all cricket lovers want the Cricket should blossom and becomes one of the greatest games.

Its enough for the Indian Cricket League, they are betrayed for a long time from ICC (International Cricket Council) which is treating the recognition application of the ICL in a very tardy manner.

Expert believes that, giving recognition to Zee promoted Indian Cricket League will end the monopoly of the International Cricket Council, which is prompting ICC to delay the recognition process for ICL.

ICL stated that they applied for getting recognition in April but till now no decision has been taken yet by ICC. The fear of ICC can be seen from the fact that they are asking absurd questions from the promoters of ICL, like what is the objective of the league and why this ICL has been started.

But this time ICL is taking tough move against the International Cricket council. ICL has given them 14 days time and if they did not hear anything in that time, then they will drag the international cricket governing body to court.

Mean while it will be interesting to see if ICC gives recognition to the Unofficial ICL then we will see and new series of competition and every thing will be taken in more professional manner.

According to the reports of PTI, the worldwide news agency, Chennai is all set to create their new cricket stadium for the 2011 World Cup.

The Secretary of the TNCA (Tamil Nadu Cricket Association), Mr. Kasi Viswanathan has said that the new stadium will be located at Karunkuzhipallam, 26 km from the main city.

Worth Rs. 100 crore, this new stadium will have a capacity of about 60,000 audiences. BCCI is also quite happy to see this project getting finalized and along with the World Cup this stadium can also become one of the hottest venues for the new T 20 trend of International Cricket.

The secretary of the TNCA has also added that at first they would take the possession of the ground and then there will be an agreement between the TNC and government regarding every other detail in a short time.

It is also said that the Chepauk Ground or the M A Chidambaram stadium will also be used as a venue of different types of cricket matches.

Probably the most gorgeous and most talked-about event of cricket called the IPL T 20 cricket championship has been cancelled due to some legal problems. The opening league that was to feature 20 top domestic teams from India, Australia, England and South Africa was scheduled from 30th Sept – 8th Oct is now under water.

Lalit Modi, the person behind successful organizing the IPL T 20 cricket tournament, has claimed that the tournament will not be abounded rather it would be rescheduled. Though Modi has not told in details but media assumes the main reason behind this delay is the disagreement between the participating nations regarding some sort of financial terms.

The mega event of $US 10 million was supposed to take place between the final of the Champions Trophy and the Oct 9 starter India-Australia test series.

On the other the England Cricket board has said that they can’t oppose their players from playing the ICL, opposed by BCCI, as it is illegal.