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It seems like IPL2009 is gonna be in England most probably.. -ves: 1.Its gonna be cold in england during this time .. 8 deg aprox.. 2.Its gonna rain often 3.Timing. 1630 & 2000 hrs (IST) which means 1300 & 1630 hrs UK time..Tough I expect some crowd for the latter matches during the week..I still wonder how there will be some crowd for the matches that starts at 1300hrs and that too matches for which there are no local players. 4. Indian public can watch from TV, though it might not generate the same entertainment as last year without the crowd. IMO, the corwd makes it lot more entertaining to watch. who would like to watch a T20match played in front of empyt stadiums which is all about entertainment.. 5.Franchies and BCCI will loose some money due to sharing the revenue with the local board . 6. WI start their 1st test in Eng on 6th May and their tour is until 26th May. This means Eng players wont play the 2nd leg of IPL and there might be chances that Aus n Pak play the ODI series from 22nd Apr until 7th May which means Aus players wont play the 1st leg of IPL..Though this is not a big issue.. absence of Eng players would hurt.. 7. I am not sure about the contract between sky channel and ECB..they might make an issue for broadcasting rights in England.. +ves: 1.Players will make money 2.Indian public can still watch IPL on tv.. this is all I could think.. feel free to add your views..

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IPL in England is no reason to cheer By: Mike Norrish at Mar 22, 2009 at 18:35:42

It's unlikely the IPL's scantily-clad cheerleaders will be shaking their pom-poms with excitement at the prospect of England staging next month's Twenty20 extravaganza. Indeed, should the girls take the field on a windy Tuesday in Leeds, they'll be shivering rather than shaking. At least the extra layers of clothing will placate those Indian conservatives appalled by raunch levels at last year's tournament. But it's not just the girls who'll struggle if the IPL is played here next month. April in England is something of a punchline among overseas players who've experienced county cricket. Shane Warne, in his first season with Hampshire, fielded in a woolly hat to keep out the cold, and plenty of batsmen have been left pining for Brisbane or Barbados as the ball spits around on seaming spring greentops. "The teams will need to prepare themselves in terms of clothing but we have already told them to get ready for all possibilities," said Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, who has probably already considered the possibility of branded windbreakers and scarves. There may be something strangely romantic about the early days of the English season, with flask-carrying pensioners dotted around county grounds. But it's hardly Bollywood. Will Preity Zinta still find time in her busy filming schedule to watch Old Trafford groundstaff mopping up the outfield? Perhaps she'll never get the chance. Despite the ECB's apparent willingness to stage the tournament, there are obvious barriers to an English edition of the IPL. Sky Sports, the ECB's broadcasting partner and main source of income, is unlikely to be overly impressed by the prospect of the Setanta-screened tournament being allowed to overshadow its own summer plans. A 'no' from Sky could scupper the whole idea before it even starts. And perhaps that's no bad thing. The Twenty20 World Cup will be staged here in June - starting just 11 days after the IPL final - and cricket fans would be sick of the short stuff by the time the ICC tournament comes around. The hosts' chances in that event - already distinctly slim - would suffer if the IPL offered the world's best one-day players a five-week warm-up in English chances. Stuart Clark and Phillip Hughes are already being given a pre-Ashes 'net' by Kent and Middlesex. And should England also stage the IPL, the rest of their Baggy Green team-mates will enjoy the same advantage. So here's hoping it's South Africa. England's cricketing summer already has its starter and its main course. It doesn't need an Indian takeaway as well.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/mikenorrish/blog/2009/03/22/ipl_in_england_is_no_reason_to_cheer
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Sky behind IPL snub - not weather pg-54-IPL-Getty_154369k.jpg England's huge embarrassment at being rebuffed yesterday by the Indian Premier League should have been matched by equally enormous relief. The competition, moved from its natural home because of serious security risks, will be played in South Africa. mf.gifemailthis2.gifbookmark.gif a2.img More... Sky behind IPL snub - not weather South Africa to host India's slogfest as England miss out after satellite rights clash By Stephen Brenkley, cricket correspondent Wednesday, 25 March 2009 England's huge embarrassment at being rebuffed yesterday by the Indian Premier League should have been matched by equally enormous relief. The competition, moved from its natural home because of serious security risks, will be played in South Africa. Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, and Gerald Majola, the chief executive of Cricket South Africa, agreed a deal yesterday which will mean the tournament starting a week later than scheduled at six grounds. Modi did not bother going on to London as initially planned to hear a pitch from the England and Wales Cricket Board for staging the game's most lucrative competition. This was not how it was meant to be or (as late as Sunday night) thought to be. England were bullish enough then to think that they would indeed be staging the competition. Their carefully rehearsed optimism was clearly born of encouragement from the Board of Control for Cricket in India. But the BCCI suddenly became less enthusiastic when they realised it might rain in England in April, recognition on a par with understanding that Shane Warne is a leg-spin bowler. There might have been much more to it than April showers as a leading sports lawyer, Stephen Hornsby, pointed out yesterday. "Before everyone got excited about the chance of the IPL being played in England, a simple question needed to be asked," said Hornsby, a partner with Davenport Lyons. "Why would a commercial organisation like Sky pay a large amount of money to a sports governing body in return for exclusive rights in the territory, without preventing such a body from allowing a competitor to broadcast another event in the same territory at roughly the same time? The answer is that it would not." Sky, the ECB's main broadcast partners, paid an estimated $300m (£207m) for the latest right deal. But they did not hold the rights to broadcast the IPL, which went to their satellite rivals Setanta. But it is common practice for a sports broadcasting contract to require a governing body not to authorise the playing of any event in the territory covered by the broadcast. The ECB, in their eagerness to placate India, probably jumped the gun in assuming they could stage the tournament which clashes with the Test series against West Indies and two of the three one-day internationals. "It is therefore safe to assume that unless Sky had waived its rights, the ECB would have been in breach of its lucrative contract if it had allowed the IPL to take place here," said Hornsby. "Bearing in mind that Sky's upstart rival Setanta holds the rights to IPL, it was not likely that Sky would give it a blast of [much needed] commercial oxygen. Sky would have been able to terminate [bankrupting English cricket] or enforce the agreement by injunction if the ECB had tried to go ahead with IPL." Of course, it is much easier for everyone to blame the weather – "climactic conditions" said the BCCI as well as the lack of floodlights which would not have been needed – although recent evidence offers scant support. The original dates of the IPL, which England indicated they would be happy to accommodate despite the logistical nightmare, were 10 April to 24 May. Between those dates in England in 2008 there were 54 one-day matches, only two of which finished in a no result because of the weather. With all sides anxiously attempting to maintain goodwill there were slaps on the back all round. David Collier, the ECB chief executive, said: "We wish the IPL every success in South Africa and are grateful for the letter of thanks we have received from the BCCI. However, we all recognised the difficulties and logistical issues involved in areas such as security when the G20 is meeting in the UK next week and the climatic challenges." That is far removed from what Collier told journalists during an amiable briefing in Guyana on Sunday. The G20, for a start, did not rate a mention. There is a certain irony in the fact that the South Africa IPL will not start until 18 April, a week later than planned. It reduces the involvement of the English players from three weeks to two and their wages accordingly.

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