By giving our domestic players a chance to play against legends like Chris Crains, Brian Lara etc i think they are doing indian cricket a huge huge favour something which the Bcci never have done and will never ever do..SO instead of criticizing the ICL i think it should be encouraged.BCCI, by banning the ICL are only trying to go against their own policy of promoting the game.. IF they are so much for cricket and not for the money then why don't MR pawar and the rest get together and remove the ban on the ICL players..??
ICL means idiots cricket league.star players are playing in icl only for money. these are already fixed matches. they are making fool. this is a stupid Z group activity. just think klusenar is playing with some galli mohalla guys?????? isnot it a stupidity?????????????
RE:ICL--- Idiots Cricket League
by ramkrishna on Jan 03, 2008 05:42 PM
icl is backed by great kapil , that is enough, no indian player will match for another century
Instead of banning the players do not select these players in any of the teams, automatically they will understand that they are not required and will stop playing cricket from their respective state teams.
RE:Instead of banning, drop them from their state team
by ashish bhagat on Jan 03, 2008 05:44 PM
ask kart. maybe his girlfriend has not banned him but has also not selected him.....
RE:Instead of banning, drop them from their state team
by parveen baig on Jan 03, 2008 03:03 PM
THey have join ICL because of not getting selected even after playing very good in domestic cricket Most of this player have been let down by BCCI and other state association who are busy playing politics Otherwise how u explain Praveen kumar getting selected and suddenly drop for Ishant sharma without getting much opportunity to play.
RE:RE:Instead of banning, drop them from their state team
by ashish bhagat on Jan 03, 2008 05:45 PM
who told ishant sharma was dropped. he is playing their right now in australia. and all this cricketeres in question were given a chance at one point or other but they were not able to prove their worth.
if you really look at Bond's history, he plays 2 matches and sits atleast 10 matches due to injury he is such a fit person. so he cannot give 100 percent in ICL, so i would advice ICL not to engage Shane Bond, he is going to be a Huge loss for ICL.
RE:Bond is not the correct choice for ICL
by ashish bhagat on Jan 03, 2008 05:47 PM
It is good ICL is recruiting him bcoz than when next time india plays newzealand bond will not be their thus increasing chances of india to win. Good ICL. recruit some current aussie players also and umpire bucknor too. he is too good.
RE:Bond is not the correct choice for ICL
by ranjith doppalapudi on Jan 04, 2008 02:53 AM
Rahul Dravid is key player to India to win the test matches,Pls see the record his batting Average is around 70 in the test matches India won and he made 25% of total team score.He is very important player than Tendulkar in test matches...if Dravid stands the momnetum keep going ..once he is out the rest will gets out within hrs...the best example is the first test match
RE:Bond is not the correct choice for ICL
by rajkumar jain on Jan 03, 2008 04:04 PM
ICL has lots of money for international players where from this money comes from is there any account for the money which is leasurely spent on retired players and current players?
RE:RE:Bond is not the correct choice for ICL
by ashish bhagat on Jan 03, 2008 05:47 PM
it is not public money which is spend on madame gandhi. first ask account of that.
RE:Bond is not the correct choice for ICL
by Kolhapuri on Jan 03, 2008 04:49 PM
why should ICL pay for retired players. Isnt that the job of BCCI? ICL is a private company out there to make profit. They will sell what sells.
I don't think that ICL is right in roping in retired and not so good players from abroad. Shane Bond was no doubt one of the fieriest bowlers in his hay-days but of late (for over a couple of years) he is faced with fitness problems repeatedly, thus making him miss many tests and ODIs.
What is the use of ICL bringing in players like Inzamam, Lara, Cairns, Harris, Harvey, Bond etc.?
They should rather rope in budding players in the age group of 20-24 from abroad (who are not part of their national team), preferably with the consent of respective cricket boards and pose serious competition to Indian players in ICL league matches.
This can only help improve the Indian playing standards in future, if not immediately.
I do not understand why BCCI is doing every thing to prevent players from joining ICL. If players are allowed to play in England (English county) then why they can not play ICL.I think only Suprenme court can intervene here as you can not expect any thing from politicians.If Agriculture Minister of India can be board president then why players can not play in ICL afer all players have very short span of shelf life and politicians are allowed to remain in politics till they die.Our BCCI is not only preventing players from playing in ICL but forcing other boards as well to prevent players to join ICL.
rediff is a big fraud.. just picking up articles from other sites... this one is taken word by word from cricinfo... its a big shame that rediff does not have writers who can create articles of their own...
RE:fraud
by Leelu on Jan 03, 2008 11:57 AM
abey keshav..cant u see its from PTI agency...fool they r news agency...everyone takes news from them....dumbo
RE:fraud
by kumar on Jan 03, 2008 05:14 PM
Can't you see these lines at the bottom of the article??
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RE:RE:fraud
by sanDEEP on Jan 03, 2008 06:10 PM
ha ha ha! thts all i can say abt the person whi displayed limited knowledge and stunted outlook by callin it a fraud!
