Crains does not know the ground realities, he has to read the mentality of Indian public, even Ranji trophy has local flavours, hardly any one watches it. Indian public likes to watch big names who r famous, I feel ICL has limitation in this regard. Only time will tell if it wud hit or flop, it can not judged in a single season.
RE:RE:ICL VS PCL
by Janavi Sundaresan on Nov 28, 2007 09:26 PM
With all the talks and competition about ICL and IPL may be it has generated an interest. may be people are curious. In a way emergence IPL has made ICL more famous.
RE:ICL VS PCL
by Spiderman on Nov 28, 2007 02:36 PM
even in domestic matches they play t20...but without stars..people wont come to watch cricket matches...
just watch this years challenger trophy..whole stadium is empty
kapil dev and kiran more will be the only people who will be watchin icl 20/20
ICL is managed by veterans like legendary Kapil and introducing world record holder Lara and similar players and this will give an opportunity to budding Indian players to develop their skill in the game and claim their place in Indian teams in future There is no point in stamping them as rebels and write them off They should be given a due place in the future team if they justify by their skill developed in ICL
RE:ICL matches
by ! on Nov 28, 2007 01:54 PM
Cricket competitions are not patents of BCCI. Look at the kind of riches the top few at BCCI have!; it needs to be given back to society.
ICL will really be a big hit......... and also coz of many local players in it there will be a huge amt of support for the teams frm the local support.......
RE:ICL vs IPL
by Vijay alias Teesmar Khan on Nov 28, 2007 01:42 PM
Correct, but if neglected players get chances to play and also earn some money what is wrong? After all Cricket is not just a game, it is a profession.
RE:ICL vs IPL
by ! on Nov 28, 2007 01:50 PM
Anyways, Cricket competitions are not patents of BCCI. Look at the kind of riches the top few at BCCI have!; it needs to be given back to society.
RE:ICL vs IPL
by Sumit kerur on Nov 28, 2007 02:33 PM
True bcoz if players dont get chance to play for what they chose the career to play cricket how they will earn to fulfill their needs best eg - eknath solkar one of the best player didnt have job after retiring he used to stay in dress for weeks and have no money to eat its fact do u all want to see our current players in such condition . ICL is creating a revolution in cricket pls watch it it will b good
RE:But ICL members are old and unpopular
by Paul Samuel on Nov 28, 2007 01:21 PM
EVEN THOUGH ICL PLAYERS ARE OLD AND UNPOPULAR THEY CAN PLAY BETTER CRICKET THAN SACHIN, GANGULY AND ESPECIALLY DRAVID. WITH DRAVID' PRESENT FORM HE CANNOT EVEN MATCH THE FORM OF THE TAILENDERS IN ICL..
DRAVID MIGHT HAVE BEEN GR8 IN HEY DAYS BUT IT IS TIME HE QUITS INSTEAD OF BLOCKING THE CAREER OF A YOUNGSTER.. THE SAME IS THE CASE FOR SACHIN AND GANGULY...
SACHIN AND GANGULY CAN PLAY A GOOD INNINGS IN ONCE IN 10 MATCHES.. BUT IT IS NOT NEEDED.. YOU NEED TO PERFORM IN ALL THE MATCHES...
RE:But ICL members are old and unpopular
by Vivek Pai on Nov 28, 2007 01:30 PM
I can agree to some extent about Drvid and Ganguly,but Sachin?? Go check your stats...He is still the most consistent n match-winning TEST/ODI batsmen we have.
RE:But ICL members are old and unpopular
by Madhup Sharma on Nov 28, 2007 01:36 PM
It seems that Paul has no knowledge of cricket. Person like him are born to criticize anything and everything. Good, keep up the ugly work Paul!
RE:RE:But ICL members are old and unpopular
by PUKHRAJ CHAUHAN on Nov 28, 2007 03:24 PM
dear paul please name one player in indian lineup who performs in each n every match without failing.......ok name across the world.....its easy to demean someone.....still there is lot of steam left in sachin, dravid and ganguly.....
RE:RE:But ICL members are old and unpopular
by Muthukumar on Nov 28, 2007 01:28 PM
dude for anything and everything y do u hafta take a shot at dravid!!! dravid is far better than ganguly any day!!! but still u guys protect ganguly and hate dravid what exactly is it that u have against dravid...watever it is it is surely not cricket!!!!
RE:RE:RE:But ICL members are old and unpopular
by rohan on Nov 28, 2007 01:29 PM
Please dont start this sachin/saurav/dravid fight here also..... many forums already have that.... just talk about ICL or IPL here...
RE:But ICL members are old and unpopular
by rohan on Nov 28, 2007 01:28 PM
It will be a bigger hit because its a 20/20 format. ICC has restricted all countries not to play more than certain number of 20/20 matches(5 or 7 /year)
Also even if IPL starts i dont think they will be able to manage their schedule efficiently, because they will be mainly having contracted players and there's already talks of excessive cricket so when are they going to rest??????? ICC won't be cool with this.....
So overall its a lame attempt of BCCI to kill ICL which they won't succeed in.
