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| No ICL World Series in March |
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| Friday, 13 February 2009 | |||||||
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Is it a sign of times to come? ICL or the Indian Cricket League , which started earlier than Indian Premier League , is not in a position to conduct the World Series in March this year. The reason for this calling off, of the tournament, according to Himanshu Modi, head of the ICL Business Unit is the non-availability of the players from Pakistan. The moot point is, is ICL so much dependent upon Pakistan to conduct or postpone its tournaments depending upon their availability or absence from the tournament?
ICL is having the teething problems. It has been learnt that the schedule of matches for March 2009 have been called off, and now the matches would be conducted only in October 2009. But the question that has been unanswered is, is the tournament dependent on players from Pakistan to call of the match, if the Board of Pakistan decides not to release its players from national duties to play for ICL. ICL is after all, the source of inspiration for Indian Premier League or IPL. The model has been adopted from ICL only, and IPL repositioned it is such a manner that it has become a successful case study. When ICL was started, its primary objective was to give a platform to the players who were not able to find a place for themselves in the respective teams of their state units. It later on also co-opted international players, players from Pakistan as a matter of fact forming the major chunk in nearly all the teams. Its biggest advocate was Kapil Dev, who as a matter of fact has been the father figure for players from the fringe, i.e. those players who do not belong to Mumbai, Delhi or Kolkata, the traditional Mecca's of cricket. The objective, as illustrated by Kapil Dev, at the time of joining of IPL was to democratize the process of cricket playing in the country, and to encourage more and more players to choose it as a career option. It has been successful as well, manifest from the fact that players from all the playing nations, they might form the second tier of the national teams, or may have been dropped, though certain cricketing years were still left in them, became the shinning beacons of ICL. Had it been a tournament promoted by BCCI, the media publicity and broadcast of the same would have been of a much larger dimension, but it could not be, and therefore it could not catch the imagination of the country in the same manner, as did Indian Premier League.
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