It had started as the league that would provide the players from the cricketing arena who did not get a chance to find a place in their national teams to play till the time the cricket was left in them, and the passion for same drove them on to the cricketing field. The initial euphoria seems to be dying down, and the issue of finance seems to have hit Indian Cricket League like a sub-prime crisis. It seems to be a tsunami which is shaking the very foundations of the ICL.

It is probably on this count only that Kapil Dev the most visible celebrity associated with ICL has gone to the courts against the BCCI, as he feels that the BCCI is flexing its muscles and is not allowing the public sector undertakings in India to associate themselves with ICL. Indian Cricket League was expecting that it may get some kind of a reprieve from the International Cricket Committee when the stand off between ICL and IPL was referred to it. It has however not happened and the ICL has tossed the balls back in the court of the BCCI to decide the matter.

If the profile of the players associated with ICL were to be reviewed, one thing that would become crystal clear is the fact that Indian Cricket League is the heaven for the players who have gone out of sight for the national teams, on account of one performance or the other, thought there is quite a lot of cricket left in them.

 The postponement of the March tournament of Indian Cricket League has however left players from Australia like Michael Kasprowicz, Jimmy Maher, Ian Harvey, Stuart Law, Jason Gillespie and Damien Martyn in a lurch after they were informed by an email this week that ICL's March tournament would not take place.

There seems to be a move on the cards to review the payments being made to the players based on the performance and not on the basis of the reputation. It is logical as well, after all, it is the performance that should be the deciding criteria at such level. As a first step towards reviewing the performance of the players and renegotiating their contract first pruning has been done by terminating the contracts of Chris Cairns and Dinesh Mongia.

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