IPL to have two-and-a-half month window in ICC's next FTP cycle: Jay Shah/PCB reaction

[nish_mate]

Did you even read what I said INDIAN EXPAT

Indian expat community you do know there are well over a million indian British citizens
Alongwith work visa and student visa indians whom have flooded every town.

Bhai to get Pakistani visa waale to flood every town and make PSL lumber 1.... kaun rauk raha hai

 

[jnaveen1980]

Did you even read what I said INDIAN EXPAT

Indian expat community you do know there are well over a million indian British citizens
Alongwith work visa and student visa indians whom have flooded every town.

How do you know only expats watch lol¹ How many expats could possibly there to beat EPL viewership. For the record expats also watch EPL.

 

[SportsWarrior]

Did you even read what I said INDIAN EXPAT

Indian expat community you do know there are well over a million indian British citizens
Alongwith work visa and student visa indians whom have flooded every town.

so what you are saying is that the EPL is so weak that it gets beaten in UK (where football is the number one sport) by IPL which is supposedly only being watched by Indian expats. So how powerful is EPL if it cannot stand against a foreign cricket league in the home of football?

 

[SportsWarrior]

How do you know only expats watch lol¹ How many expats could possibly there to beat EPL viewership. For the record expats also watch EPL.

EPL is so poor that it gets beaten in at home, where football is more popular, by a foreign cricket league watched only by Indian expats

 

[jnaveen1980]

EPL is so poor that it gets beaten in at home, where football is more popular, by a foreign cricket league watched only by Indian expats

Most of these argue like they interviewed 1000s of people and did a study on viewership. "Nobody watches other than Indians' This is the standard strawman argument you see.

 

[BDfanforever]

When there are 1.5 billion population looking for cheap entertainment IPL, WPL, Bollywood all will be successful and super hit.

Cricket is a decent sport compared to many other mediocre sports. Look at Baseball, a boring sport where players just chew gum, gets strike out 70% of time but still make millions.

 

[BDfanforever]

International T20 have best chance of global viewership. However, it's very difficult for other countries to even pick up T20 Cricket. Cricket is just a difficult game compared to other sports.

 

[Rajdeep]

When there are 1.5 billion population looking for cheap entertainment IPL, WPL, Bollywood all will be successful and super hit.

Cricket is a decent sport compared to many other mediocre sports. Look at Baseball, a boring sport where players just chew gum, gets strike out 70% of time but still make millions.

Please tell me how exactly IPL is cheap entertainment? It is the highest form of T20 cricket and on par with WT20. No other international T20 series comes close to IPL on being competitiveness. Are you saying the ongoing Pak vs NZ JAMT20 series is more entertaining than IPL?

 

[BDfanforever]

Please tell me how exactly IPL is cheap entertainment? It is the highest form of T20 cricket and on par with WT20. No other international T20 series comes close to IPL on being competitiveness. Are you saying the ongoing Pak vs NZ JAMT20 series is more entertaining than IPL?

I am not saying IPL is cheap entertainment, but that people are always looking for some kind of entertainment in their lives.

Games in NZ makes for great viewership just for landscape alone whether bilateral or not.

 

[U$ofA]

I am not saying IPL is cheap entertainment, but that people are always looking for some kind of entertainment in their lives.

Games in NZ makes for great viewership just for landscape alone whether bilateral or not.

Interesting. I don't think I have ever heard that argument before. For any sport. Tuning in for a sporting event to watch the landscape is a new one for me.

 

[shah9425]

I am not saying IPL is cheap entertainment, but that people are always looking for some kind of entertainment in their lives.

Games in NZ makes for great viewership just for landscape alone whether bilateral or not.

IPL is a cheap league indeed

 

[Cric_lover4487]

My Pakistani friend in UK told me that white people are obsessed with PSL and can't wait for new season.

 

[mazkhan]

EPL is so poor that it gets beaten in at home, where football is more popular, by a foreign cricket league watched only by Indian expats

You can claim what you want but there is no way I'm going to believe that a foreign domestic cricket tournament is going to have more viewership and popularity and endless debates of games than the English Premier League which is not only the national game of the England but the league with its household has viewership and global fanbase.

I'm waiting for these indians to claim they are bigger than Manchester utd

 

[SportsWarrior]

You can claim what you want but there is no way I'm going to believe that a foreign domestic cricket tournament is going to have more viewership and popularity and endless debates of games than the English Premier League which is not only the national game of the England but the league with its household has viewership and global fanbase.

I'm waiting for these indians to claim they are bigger than Manchester utd

I am not claiming anything. I just referenced the wisden link that was provided

 

[captain.hansolo]

I thought you denied that? Maybe ask ICC (BCCI) to create a tournament in which India is the winner by default as well

That’s turning out to be most tournaments actually

 

[BouncerGuy]

Blow For BCCI As Cricket South Africa Takes Tough Stance On IPL 2025 Extension

The extension of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season due to the Indo-Pak conflict has resulted in a big headache for franchises. While the message from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is to get all overseas players back for the resumption of the league, Cricket South Africa has told its players to return home by May 26, as was the initial agreement when the IPL final was to be held on May 25. Though talks are still going on between the two bosses of the boards, CSA is reportedly unwilling to budge on its stance.

The likes of Corbin Bosch (Mumbai Indians), Wiaan Mulder (Sunrisers Hyderabad), Marco Jansen (Punjab Kings), Aiden Markram (Lucknow SuperGiants), Lungi Ngidi (Royal Challengers Bengaluru), Kagiso Rabada (Gujarat Titans), Ryan Rickelton (Mumbai Indians) and Tristan Stubbs (Delhi Capitals) have all been named in the WTC final squad South Africa announced on May 13.

As per the initial agreement, the BCCI is supposed to release all overseas players on May 26. But, as the per revised schedule, even the league stage of the campaign would not finish before May 27, while the final is on June 03.

"The initial agreement with the IPL and the BCCI was with the final being on the (May) 25th, our players would return on the 26th, so that it allows them ample time before we fly out on the 30th. Nothing has changed from our perspective," South Africa head coach Shukri Conrad said on Tuesday.

"That is the ongoing conversations that are being had between people in a higher pay grade than I am, i.e. the Director of Cricket (Enoch Nkwe) and Pholetsi Moseki (CSA CEO), so they're dealing with that. But as it stands, we're not budging on that, I don't think. We want our players back on the 26th, and hopefully that comes to fruition," he added.

"We are still in discussions with IPL & BCCI," Enoch Nkwe, the CSA director of cricket, told Cricbuzz when asked about the complexity of the situation.

A few IPL franchise, however, might continue to enjoy the services of South African players who aren't a part of the World Test Championship final against Australia. Those Proteas stars are:

Dewald Brevis (a replacement player in Chennai Super Kings), Faf du Plessis and Donovan Ferreira (Delhi Capitals), Gerald Coetzee (Gujarat Titans), Quinton de Kock and Anrich Nortje (Kolkata Knight Riders), David Miller, Matthew Breetzke (Lucknow Super Giants), Nandre Burger, Kwena Maphaka, Lhuan-dre Pretorius (Rajasthan Royals) and Heinrich Klaasen (SunRisers Hyderabad).

The WTC final-bound players have been asked to assemble in Arundel (a town in England) on 31 May. This is when the selected players will play a warm-up match against Zimbabwe from June 3-6 before heading to London on June 7, with the WTC final set to start on June 11.

SOURCE: https://sports.ndtv.com/ipl-2025/re...ith-bcci-over-ipl-2025-extension-8408609?s=08

 

[BouncerGuy]

Blow For BCCI As Cricket South Africa Takes Tough Stance On IPL 2025 Extension

The extension of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season due to the Indo-Pak conflict has resulted in a big headache for franchises. While the message from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is to get all overseas players back for the resumption of the league, Cricket South Africa has told its players to return home by May 26, as was the initial agreement when the IPL final was to be held on May 25. Though talks are still going on between the two bosses of the boards, CSA is reportedly unwilling to budge on its stance.

The likes of Corbin Bosch (Mumbai Indians), Wiaan Mulder (Sunrisers Hyderabad), Marco Jansen (Punjab Kings), Aiden Markram (Lucknow SuperGiants), Lungi Ngidi (Royal Challengers Bengaluru), Kagiso Rabada (Gujarat Titans), Ryan Rickelton (Mumbai Indians) and Tristan Stubbs (Delhi Capitals) have all been named in the WTC final squad South Africa announced on May 13.

As per the initial agreement, the BCCI is supposed to release all overseas players on May 26. But, as the per revised schedule, even the league stage of the campaign would not finish before May 27, while the final is on June 03.

"The initial agreement with the IPL and the BCCI was with the final being on the (May) 25th, our players would return on the 26th, so that it allows them ample time before we fly out on the 30th. Nothing has changed from our perspective," South Africa head coach Shukri Conrad said on Tuesday.

"That is the ongoing conversations that are being had between people in a higher pay grade than I am, i.e. the Director of Cricket (Enoch Nkwe) and Pholetsi Moseki (CSA CEO), so they're dealing with that. But as it stands, we're not budging on that, I don't think. We want our players back on the 26th, and hopefully that comes to fruition," he added.

"We are still in discussions with IPL & BCCI," Enoch Nkwe, the CSA director of cricket, told Cricbuzz when asked about the complexity of the situation.

A few IPL franchise, however, might continue to enjoy the services of South African players who aren't a part of the World Test Championship final against Australia. Those Proteas stars are:

Dewald Brevis (a replacement player in Chennai Super Kings), Faf du Plessis and Donovan Ferreira (Delhi Capitals), Gerald Coetzee (Gujarat Titans), Quinton de Kock and Anrich Nortje (Kolkata Knight Riders), David Miller, Matthew Breetzke (Lucknow Super Giants), Nandre Burger, Kwena Maphaka, Lhuan-dre Pretorius (Rajasthan Royals) and Heinrich Klaasen (SunRisers Hyderabad).

The WTC final-bound players have been asked to assemble in Arundel (a town in England) on 31 May. This is when the selected players will play a warm-up match against Zimbabwe from June 3-6 before heading to London on June 7, with the WTC final set to start on June 11.

SOURCE: https://sports.ndtv.com/ipl-2025/re...ith-bcci-over-ipl-2025-extension-8408609?s=08

‘Higher up than me’: South Africa’s Test backflip after India power move

Indian cricket has flexed its muscle to overrule South African plans for the world Test championship final, cutting back preparation time for the likes of Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen ahead of their showdown with Australia by insisting they stay in India until the end of the IPL.

The resumption of the IPL, after conflict between India and Pakistan, is a far bigger money spinner than the Test decider, forcing difficult conversations among boards and franchises as cricket’s hectic calendar strains to cope with a week’s delay.

CSA’s team performance arm initially pushed a hard line on Wednesday night, insisting that its eight IPL players would not be part of the resuming tournament for any longer than the originally slated May 25 finish of the competition.

“One thing we’ve made clear, and we are finalising it with the IPL and the BCCI, is that we are sticking to our original plan when it comes to WTC preparations with May 26 being the latest for the Test guys to come back,” CSA’s director of cricket Enoch Nkwe said overnight.

But a few hours later, Nkwe issued a clarification to Indian and South African media that acknowledged conversations going on well above his station, at executive and board levels between CSA, the BCCI and IPL franchises.

“Correction – the squad will resume training for the game on June 3rd,” he said. “The matter is being discussed higher up than me. At ground level, we are focusing on preps for the WTC final.”

That backflip means Rabada, Jansen, Aiden Markram, Lungi Ngidi and Tristan Stubbs, among others, may arrive in London only a week before the start of the WTC final, having spent the past couple of months focused on Twenty20 and now having to readjust to Test matches.

South Africa are scheduled to play a warm-up fixture against Zimbabwe at Arundel on June 3, but given Nkwe’s clarification the dates for that match may have to be revised.

Should the Proteas’ prep time be cut short, it will be the second time in as many Test championship finals that Australia have benefited from the IPL ties of their opponents.

In 2023, India had four players take part in the IPL final on May 29 and then turn out in the Test decider a week later, whereas for Australia, only Cameron Green was involved in the latter stages of the tournament for Mumbai Indians.

The Indian Premier League season will resume after a ceasefire was called between India and Pakistan.

Cricket Australia had previously stated that it would support players regardless of whether they wished to return to India, but did not declare a fixed date on which they must report for Test duty.

Only one member of Australia’s Test squad – Josh Inglis – is likely to face the Proteas’ dilemma if, as expected, Mitchell Starc withdraws from the remainder of the competition following a hectic exit from India when air raid warnings cancelled the game he played in Dharamsala.

Inglis, who plays for the Punjab side coached by Ricky Ponting, was still weighing up his options on Thursday morning.

Among other Australian Test squad members, captain Pat Cummins and deputy Travis Head are set to return to India to play for Sunrisers Hyderabad, but know their last game is on May 25 as the side has already been eliminated from the knockout stage.

Josh Hazlewood (Royal Challengers Bangalore) has ruled out a return to the IPL due to a shoulder niggle, leaving Inglis and Starc as the only other Test participants with uncertain IPL playing status. Delhi are fifth on the table.

Australia held the first of a couple of Brisbane-based training camps for non-IPL players this week, and will also train for about a week in London before the Test final starts on Wednesday, June 11.

As has become recent custom, Cummins’ team are not playing any kind of formal warm-up match, preferring to focus on centre wicket training.

Bowler Sean Abbott will not return to the Pakistan Super League after the charter plane close shave, but Ben Dwarshuis plans to go back.

SOURCE: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cri...fter-ipl-power-move-20250515-p5lzdc.html?s=08

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

I have never seen such an unprofessional board as the BCCI. What do South African players have to do with the postponement of the IPL, and why should their preparations for the final be affected?

 

[DeadlyVenom]

I have never seen such an unprofessional board as the BCCI. What do South African players have to do with the postponement of the IPL, and why should their preparations for the final be affected?

Surely the unprofessional one is CSA here? If they want the players they can tell BCCI to do one .

 

[TeymurBlake]

I have never seen such an unprofessional board as the BCCI. What do South African players have to do with the postponement of the IPL, and why should their preparations for the final be affected?

Paisa bro, Paisa.

This duniya chases the paisa. IPL has it in bucket loads.