Ian Chappell Wants Top Aussie Players to Prioritise Domestic Competitions & Skip IPL

[Savak]

Ian Chappell Wants Top Aussie Players to Prioritise Domestic Competitions & Skip IPL

Legendary cricketer Ian Chappell wants the Australian players to prioritise local and domestic competitions over the IPL. Though the cash-rich league was supposed to be held in March this year, but could not take place due the coronavirus.

Cricketnext Staff |May 22, 2020, 2:55 PM IST

Legendary cricketer Ian Chappell wants the Australian players to prioritise local and domestic competitions over the IPL. Though the cash-rich league was supposed to be held in March this year, but could not take place due the coronavirus.

If the T20 World Cup too is cancelled, then there are talks of having an IPL in that window. This would mean that it would collide with the Australian domestic tournaments.

Currently 13 Aussies are signed up to play in the IPL.

“The top players are looked after very well by Cricket Australia these days, so I think there’s an obligation there,” Chappell told Wide World of Sports, adding it was a chance to tell India’s cricket board it could not dictate the sport’s schedule.

Chappell further adds that players who do not belong to the top league could choose to play the IPL.

“I could mount a case more for a peripheral player who doesn’t earn a lot of money in Australia; if the bulk of his income is going to come from the IPL, well that’s something I would have some sympathy for if I was a CA board member.

“But the top players are well paid, and that argument doesn’t hold any water. Their obligation should be to Australia.”

Earlier, Allan Border too had shared similar sentiment. He had said that IPL should not replace T20 World Cup. He went on to add that the national boards should stop their players from going for the IPL, if it does takes place.

Link: https://www.news18.com/cricketnext/...e-domestic-competitions-skip-ipl-2631895.html

Comments: Waiting for Ian Chappel to be blacklisted by the BCCI, Indian ex players, current players and fans

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Ian Chappell wants top australian players to skip IPL because they are paid well by Aussie board and he want other boards to do the same. I don't think he is wrong here. BCCI also stops it's players from going to other leagues.

 

[CanadianG00se]

Ian Chappell Wants Top Aussie Players to Prioritise Domestic Competitions & Skip IPL

Legendary cricketer Ian Chappell wants the Australian players to prioritise local and domestic competitions over the IPL. Though the cash-rich league was supposed to be held in March this year, but could not take place due the coronavirus.

Cricketnext Staff |May 22, 2020, 2:55 PM IST

Legendary cricketer Ian Chappell wants the Australian players to prioritise local and domestic competitions over the IPL. Though the cash-rich league was supposed to be held in March this year, but could not take place due the coronavirus.

If the T20 World Cup too is cancelled, then there are talks of having an IPL in that window. This would mean that it would collide with the Australian domestic tournaments.

Currently 13 Aussies are signed up to play in the IPL.

“The top players are looked after very well by Cricket Australia these days, so I think there’s an obligation there,” Chappell told Wide World of Sports, adding it was a chance to tell India’s cricket board it could not dictate the sport’s schedule.

Chappell further adds that players who do not belong to the top league could choose to play the IPL.

“I could mount a case more for a peripheral player who doesn’t earn a lot of money in Australia; if the bulk of his income is going to come from the IPL, well that’s something I would have some sympathy for if I was a CA board member.

“But the top players are well paid, and that argument doesn’t hold any water. Their obligation should be to Australia.”

Earlier, Allan Border too had shared similar sentiment. He had said that IPL should not replace T20 World Cup. He went on to add that the national boards should stop their players from going for the IPL, if it does takes place.

Link: https://www.news18.com/cricketnext/...e-domestic-competitions-skip-ipl-2631895.html

Comments: Waiting for Ian Chappel to be blacklisted by the BCCI, Indian ex players, current players and fans

If CA pulls back Aussie players from IPL( if it goes ahead) then BCCI will pullout of tour citing COVID-19. IPL will lose some glamour due to no Aussie players but will hardly impact BCCI’s coffers. But if Indian tour is called off CA would be close to bankruptcy. Then who is going to pay domestic players in Australia?

 

[CanadianG00se]

Ian Chappell wants top australian players to skip IPL because they are paid well by Aussie board and he want other boards to do the same. I don't think he is wrong here. BCCI also stops it's players from going to other leagues.

If Indian tour is called off, I highly doubt CA would be able to pay the players.

 

[Saurav]

If CA pulls back Aussie players from IPL( if it goes ahead) then BCCI will pullout of tour citing COVID-19. IPL will lose some glamour due to no Aussie players but will hardly impact BCCI’s coffers. But if Indian tour is called off CA would be close to bankruptcy. Then who is going to pay domestic players in Australia?

Ian Chappell as he made the suggestion

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

If CA pulls back Aussie players from IPL( if it goes ahead) then BCCI will pullout of tour citing COVID-19. IPL will lose some glamour due to no Aussie players but will hardly impact BCCI’s coffers. But if Indian tour is called off CA would be close to bankruptcy. Then who is going to pay domestic players in Australia?

Why will BCCI pullout of international series if Australian board stop its top players from going to IPL?

It's one thing being arrogant but BCCI and some fans think they are running cricket in all the countries and want to bully everyone who comes in their way.

Thank god we are useless minnows in Football and almost every other sport otherwise we would have ruined those sports also.

 

[MenInG]

Former captain Ian Chappell says Cricket Australia (CA) should reject any moves from senior players to participate in a rescheduled Indian Premier League, if it clashes with domestic cricket in this country.

With the possible postponement or cancellation of the T20 World Cup, due to be played in Australia in October-November, Indian officials have been angling for the IPL to be moved into that slot.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is due to discuss the issue next week, although the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is desperate for the IPL to go ahead, given it's worth about $800 million in revenue.

The IPL is normally played in April-May, when it doesn't clash with domestic cricket in Australia, but any move to October-November would be a direct conflict with the usual dates of the Australian domestic summer.

The likes of Steve Smith, David Warner and Pat Cummins all have rich IPL contracts, with Cummins' deal with Kolkata Knight Riders worth $3.2m.

Cummins yesterday told SEN Radio that he was "really looking forward to playing it for many obvious reasons, hopefully it goes ahead."

According to Chappell, players on large CA contracts should be giving the IPL a miss in favour of supporting the local competition.

"Well this is coming from someone who's never been a fan of the board, but the top players are looked after very well by Cricket Australia these days, so I think there's an obligation there," Chappell told Wide World of Sports.

"It's also a chance to stand up and say the cricket world isn't going to be pushed around by India.

"I could mount a case more for a peripheral player who doesn't earn a lot of money in Australia; if the bulk of his income is going to come from the IPL, well that's something I would have some sympathy for if I was a CA board member.

"But the top players are well paid, and that argument doesn't hold any water. Their obligation should be to Australia."

Chappell, who captained Australia in 30 of his 75 Tests, says there's little doubt the IPL will take over the T20 World Cup dates, if the ICC tournament can't go ahead due to coronavirus.

"The first thing you know is that the BCCI will win," he said.

"They'll get their way if they want to play in October. At this point it appears to me that the chances of the T20 World Cup going ahead are somewhere between Buckley's and none.

"With so many countries, I just think it would be logistically way too difficult, but that's purely a cricketer talking, not a medical person or someone with experience running a tournament like that.

"But it seems to me with 16 teams to worry about it's probably going to be too hard, and if the BCCI want the IPL to take that slot they'll probably get their way."

One factor for CA to consider should there be a clash would be the fact that the BCCI doesn't allow the top Indian players to participate in the Big Bash.

Chappell dismissed the theory that if CA prevented its top players from heading to the IPL then the BCCI would retaliate by pulling out of this summer's Test series in Australia.

He said any attempt by India to pressure CA should be given short shrift.

"Well the BCCI might try to retaliate, but it would be pretty stupid, because apart from Australia and India there aren't too many good Test-playing countries," he said.

"To me, bully-boy tactics never work long-term, they might work in the short-term, but that's it.

"It's time someone in the cricket world had the guts to stand up to India and say 'if that's the way you want to play, that's fine, we'll find someone else.'

"Sure it would be a whole lot of money down the drain, which at this stage would be difficult to swallow, but this is an opportunity to show the rest of the cricket world that there's somebody prepared to stand up to India, and it's time that a bit of common sense came into the scheduling."

Chappell pointed out that such a boycott of Australia would be unlikely to be supported by Indian captain Virat Kohli, and coach Ravi Shastri.

"I'm not convinced that India would go down that route," he said.

"I don't know the thinking of the BCCI board, but I think if they tried that on, they'd get serious kickback from Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri.

"Kohli strikes me as the sort of player who wants to challenge himself at every opportunity. He beat Australia here last time, he wouldn't want to throw away the opportunity to now beat a full-strength Australian team.

"I think Kohli would be mightily ****** off if the Indian board went down that route.

"I also know Ravi pretty well, and I know how competitive he is."

CA is reportedly considering cutting the Sheffield Shield competition to eight rounds, down from the usual 10, in a bid to save money in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It's a plan that's been met with opposition, with Test opener Joe Burns one of those calling for the competition to be left alone.

But Chappell doesn't see what the fuss is about.

"I don't see a cut to eight rounds being a great disaster," he said.

"I played most of my career with an eight game competition, before Tasmania joined the Shield, and that produced plenty of decent Test cricketers.

"If you go back to the early days of Bradman's career, they only played six games, and again, they didn't do so bad.

"If I was a player I wouldn't be jumping up and down about eight games."

Chappell said quality, not necessarily quantity, is the most important factor, again highlighting the desire to have Australia's senior players participate in the Sheffield Shield rather than the IPL.

"The key is how many of those games you get with the top players," he said.

"That's been the problem with the Shield competition for a long time now, and the international program has caused much of the problems.

"I think if it's well promoted and the top players are there, CA might get a surprise at how many people are interested and wanted to watch, especially when there's been so little sport of late.

"By that stage you might be allowed a crowd of 2000, and you could easily space them out and satisfy the social distancing regulations.

"It would be an opportunity to really promote it, and it could be a winning situation if Cricket Australia use it wisely."

https://wwos.nine.com.au/cricket/ia...xclusive/a96a3396-3260-4eef-b268-0c711bc62dfe

 

[Rana]

ICC need to be fair here and reschedule the T20wc in India this year if they are willing to provide a venue (as they are for IPL) and Australia get to host it in 2021 when things will be safer over there.

India can host an IPL at the same time with reduced matches and give fringe international cricketers pay per match agreements until the star international players return

 

[Rana]

Eventually I think BCCI will just have to suck it up and let this years IPL go.

 

[MMHS]

The guy who took entire Australian squad as Packer’s foreman out of Australian domestic & international cricket for two years now wants next gen Aussie cricketers to skip IPL and focus on domestics when the circus will pay in two months MUCH more than what WSC paid in two years!!!!!!!

Irony ......

 

[CanadianG00se]

ICC need to be fair here and reschedule the T20wc in India this year if they are willing to provide a venue (as they are for IPL) and Australia get to host it in 2021 when things will be safer over there.

India can host an IPL at the same time with reduced matches and give fringe international cricketers pay per match agreements until the star international players return

I don’t think BCCI will agree to hosting WT20 and rightly so. No country want 200+ players coming from all corners of world for an event. All major events have been cancelled and WT20 shouldn’t be any exception.

 

[CanadianG00se]

Why will BCCI pullout of international series if Australian board stop its top players from going to IPL?

It's one thing being arrogant but BCCI and some fans think they are running cricket in all the countries and want to bully everyone who comes in their way.

Thank god we are useless minnows in Football and almost every other sport otherwise we would have ruined those sports also.

BCCI will pullout for same reason CA will stop its players # COVID-19

 

[Ab Fan]

Ian Chappell wants top australian players to skip IPL because they are paid well by Aussie board and he want other boards to do the same. I don't think he is wrong here. BCCI also stops it's players from going to other leagues.

CA will never pull back the Aussie players from IPL, there is just so much of money....

If you want the betterment of the game, initiative must come from BCCI only.

 

[CanadianG00se]

Ian Chappell as he made the suggestion

CA were suggesting earlier significant pay cut for players. As per reports they are riding on Indian tour to bail them out of the current financial mess. If it doesn’t happen for whatever reason, then forget pay cut, CA will be filing bankruptcy.

Upcoming Indian tour is basically a stimulus package for CA. BCCI will ensure to strike a deal with return favours from them. I can already see WT20 being postponed or even cancelled, making room for IPL. I have been suggesting that neither should take precedence over safety of the players and officials. IPL can work without fans but WT20 will be absolute disaster without fans.

 

[CanadianG00se]

Eventually I think BCCI will just have to suck it up and let this years IPL go.

I think IPL might not happen this year nor does WT20. Both events should be called off rather than taking chances.

 

[CanadianG00se]

CA will never pull back the Aussie players from IPL, there is just so much of money....

If you want the betterment of the game, initiative must come from BCCI only.

Na, as per him BCCI knows how to destroy game but never acknowledge that it is because of BCCI game has flourished in India. He hates IPL but never understand that due to IPL, average domestic player can now have a good career just playing domestics. He want India to go back to 80-90s where we would pay peanuts to International player, and lunch money(that too I doubt it) to domestic.

I have yet to see him say anything positive.

 

[Markhor]

IMO multi-team tournaments in 2020 are a nonstarter be it IPL or WT20 because it's extremely difficult to socially distance and quarantine so teams and players from all over the world.

It's relatively easier to stage bilateral series in a "biosecure" environment however.

 

[Savak]

Allan Border has also questioned that if it is safe to host the IPL then why cant the T-20 WC be held and in his view ICC tournaments like the T-20 WC should take precedence over the domestic leagues like the IPL

 

[Thomaskutty]

I agree with Border. IPL shouldn't be allowed to cannibalise on ICC tournaments. I hope the constituent boards don't cave in.

 

[Hasan123]

Top Australian players don't play much shield cricket anyway due to the way the Australia schedule is.

IPL is unlikely to happen due to the difficulties in logistics in my opinion.

I liked what Ravi Shastri said a few days ago. He said ICC should concentrate on getting bilateral cricket as this will be easier to control than big tournaments.

Missing cricket.

 

[U$ofA]

I don't understand this. Australian cricket season is done and dusted by the time IPL rolls around. So don't see how the two are related. Secondly, most top Aus. players don't play any shield cricket.

 

[U$ofA]

Allan Border has also questioned that if it is safe to host the IPL then why cant the T-20 WC be held and in his view ICC tournaments like the T-20 WC should take precedence over the domestic leagues like the IPL

I agree with Border. IPL shouldn't be allowed to cannibalise on ICC tournaments. I hope the constituent boards don't cave in.

The IPL and ICC tournaments are run by different entities. Both are free to choose what they want to do and when they want to do it. No one has the authority or the right to tell or force them to do anything.

 

[U$ofA]

Ian Chappell wants top australian players to skip IPL because they are paid well by Aussie board and he want other boards to do the same. I don't think he is wrong here. BCCI also stops it's players from going to other leagues.

There is nothing wrong in CA stopping their players from playing IPL. But if that happens, I think the loudest protest will come from the Aussie players and not the BCCI.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Neither IPL nor the WT20 should take place. Instead bilateral series that were delayed because of Corona should be accommodated in this window.

WT20 is too big of an event to be played without capacity crowds.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

The IPL and ICC tournaments are run by different entities. Both are free to choose what they want to do and when they want to do it. No one has the authority or the right to tell or force them to do anything.

Lol what? Are you confusing IPL with ICL? Because last time I checked BCCI came under ICC. I mean ICC is still BCCI's daddy.

If IPL is a different entity why was ICC handling the anti-corruption matters in IPL?

IPL 2018's anti-corruption matters were handled by ICC: BCCI ACU head on Shakib

https://m.timesofindia.com/sports/c...i-acu-head-on-shakib/articleshow/71809714.cms

 

[Junaids]

It is my understanding that in place of the World T20 Australia is going to play 3 Tests in New Zealand in November at the same time as the IPL.

It’s unclear whether or not the Aussies will have to quarantine for 2 weeks or whether the Trans-Tasman bubble will be in place - that depends upon New South Wales and Victoria lifting their game in terms of Community Transmission.

18 October to 1 November is pencilled in as the quarantine period, if required.

So the likes of Maxwell will be available for the IPL, but if the situation remains stable, Cummins, Smith and Warner will be on Test duty in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in November 2020.

 

[Bewal Express]

I am confused, why is it suggested that's it safe to hold the IPL and not the T20 WC in the autumn?

 

[tyron_woodley]

are you going to pay for their salaries mate? Stick to commentary.

 

[U$ofA]

Lol what? Are you confusing IPL with ICL? Because last time I checked BCCI came under ICC. I mean ICC is still BCCI's daddy.

If IPL is a different entity why was ICC handling the anti-corruption matters in IPL?

IPL 2018's anti-corruption matters were handled by ICC: BCCI ACU head on Shakib

https://m.timesofindia.com/sports/c...i-acu-head-on-shakib/articleshow/71809714.cms

All evidence to the contrary. The ICC seems to bend over backwards to please the BCCI. The ICC is just a weak, back boneless,selfish and incompetent organization.

I am under the assumption that the IPL was just run with ICC rules. All decisions were made by IPL authorities and the ICC did not have any control over what is done.

I am not too familiar with the anti-corruption probe. But it may have been the case of IPL asking the ICC to do the probe, rather than ICC just coming in and taking over.

 

[U$ofA]

I am confused, why is it suggested that's it safe to hold the IPL and not the T20 WC in the autumn?

I agree. Neither should happen.

Though its too early to say, I think there should be no cricket for the rest of the year. Take the safe and cautious approach. But then, easier for me to say. I am not in charge of anything. Neither is my income affected.

 

[Bezli]

Cancel IPL will make Warner and his wife to file Bankruptcy. Warner is too busy making his indian fans happy by posting TikTok videos on Sheila ki Jawani and SouthIndian music.

 

[Iqbal'sh]

If you want the betterment of the game, initiative must come from BCCI only.

False notion that money will provide betterment for the game.
As for looking towards the BCCI for initiative this is the same board that has been the last one to come on board when new developments are introduced:
*Didn’t take ODI cricket seriously until the third World Cup almost a decade after the ODI game was popularised
*Similarly the last of the full members to play a T20 game
*Rejected the DRS innovations
*Refused to play day/night test matches

The board simply doesn’t have the vision to be put into a decision making role.

 

[therealAB]

ICC need to be fair here and reschedule the T20wc in India this year if they are willing to provide a venue (as they are for IPL) and Australia get to host it in 2021 when things will be safer over there.

India can host an IPL at the same time with reduced matches and give fringe international cricketers pay per match agreements until the star international players return

how is that fair. Aus is currently probs the safest contry, way more than Ind

 

[jeeteshssaxena]

Lol what? Are you confusing IPL with ICL? Because last time I checked BCCI came under ICC. I mean ICC is still BCCI's daddy.

If IPL is a different entity why was ICC handling the anti-corruption matters in IPL?

IPL 2018's anti-corruption matters were handled by ICC: BCCI ACU head on Shakib

https://m.timesofindia.com/sports/c...i-acu-head-on-shakib/articleshow/71809714.cms

Bcci hires icc acsu, they annually give 3.1 crore to them.
Also the latest update is that Bcci is no longer hiring acsu
Link.-
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thespo...onger-hire-iccs-anti-corruption-services/amp/

 

[Bewal Express]

I agree. Neither should happen.

Though its too early to say, I think there should be no cricket for the rest of the year. Take the safe and cautious approach. But then, easier for me to say. I am not in charge of anything. Neither is my income affected.

Either both are safe or neither. If the IPL can be played in a bio safe environment, so can the T20 WC

 

[Rana]

how is that fair. Aus is currently probs the safest contry, way more than Ind

Then there is no reason to postpone T20 wc in Australia and send ICC umpires and officials to India for the IPL

 

[chazam]

Cancel IPL will make Warner and his wife to file Bankruptcy. Warner is too busy making his indian fans happy by posting TikTok videos on Sheila ki Jawani and SouthIndian music.

Mate I think he is sorted even if he retires now. He grew up in rough neighbourhood in a public housing and now owner of a property portfolio of close to 50 million. Mostly because of IPL millions.

 

[chazam]

If situation improves pretty sure BCCI will do all in its power to host IPL. Other boards are sheep in front of BCCI money and power.we wish some board stands up and shows the way.PCB should take initiative in that and get other boards on their side