The Indian Premier League will soon be proved as an outright competitor of the International cricket if it’s expansion not being numbed at this stage. IPL committee has decided that it will not progress further in the upcoming eight years.
Though BCCI has not signed any agreement regarding to keep the IPL at its current volume officially, but the chairman of the Cricket Australia has confirmed that ‘an agreement’ has been made. He told in an interview of ESPNcricinfo that he was concerned as he thought that the BCCI wanted to ‘leave the world cricket behind’ and then a new Members Participation Agreement (MPA) has been signed which will contemplate the sub continental economical contribution. He contributed that the time at 1970 when Australia Cricket Board chairman Kerry Packer swept away the topmost players to the World class cricket after the panel declined to certain his desire for the television rights to the game.
Edward only gave concentration on the circumscription of IPL’s current volume and gravity in a meeting with the BCCI president N Srinivasan. The meeting first held before the Woolf report which was presented in 2012 to ICC committee but got declined immediately the administrators of various country, included India. “There was a severe chance of India to leave the world cricket behind putting on the mask of IPL. And that was discussed more than once. If it got occurred another Kerry Packer moment would arise. Though its easy to say that ‘they aren’t going to do it, they want to play in World Cups’, but that was a practical.
“We obtain a consignment from them that IPL is not going to change during this eight-year cycle. Dates won’t change, the start date won’t change and the length of the tournament won’t change. They’ve given us that commitment and that was important to us. IPL is important to them, and to the world of cricket players who make a lot of money out of it, and we didn’t want to see it grow. We’ve also negotiated with India to pay the countries more for their players. We’ve got good understandings on that, they’ve been very straightforward and I believe them.”
“The reality is to this day we still haven’t got an MPA signed yet for the next media rights cycle. ICC management has been trying for a year to get it signed and it still isn’t. That has to be resolved by this next board meeting. That’s one of the building blocks. They’ve said more than once ‘you can have a World Cup but we won’t be coming’. We can argue they might come, but will they come to Champions Trophy or a World Twenty20? They might not. I can easily see them not coming.” He ended.
