More trouble at t' mill today as the Indian Following New Zealand’s capitulation t’other day, hope was springing eternal after there was a strong line offered by ECB chairman Giles Clarke, who said that England wouldn’t change its domestic first class calendar to accommodate the Indian League. So there!
Strong words indeed, but of course money roars and today the Professional Cricket Association’s Sean Morris said that England players would want to join in the cash dash and a solution should be found or ‘money will talk.’
Undoubtedly it will it always does and with IPL chairman Lalit Modi recently hinting that the IPL would shift its season forward so that the England players could be accommodated into this essentially meaningless license-to-print money league.
It’s going to be hard for players to resist the lure of an easy Twenty20 slogfest rather than grafting away at the gruelling round of Test and ODIs and it’ll only take the likes of a Harmison to sign up before other players think ‘screw that I’m up for some easy money’.
Not so bad perhaps if it's a old pro like Stephen Fleming or Shane Warne looking to cash in at the end of their career, but what about a young gun like Stuart Broad just starting out for example?
So sad to see the traditions and foundations of cricket slowly being eroded by a format which was not long ago being hailed as its saviour.
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