IPL responsible for Aus's decline: Miandad

[don_corleone840]

KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad has blamed the Indian Premier League (IPL) for Australia's stunning downfall saying the money-spinning Twenty20 league has left their top cricketers completely distracted. Miandad's advice to international stars, especially from Australia, is to think twice before falling in the 'cash trap' again. The Aussies, who till last year seemed to be almost invincible, have come crashing down following their woeful Ashes campaign. Australia lost the Ashes contest at home 1-3 and slumped to fifth place in the Test rankings. "I believe Australia's slump has a lot to do with their players' association with the IPL," Miandad was quoted as saying by The News in an interview Tuesday. "Most of their top players got a bit too distracted because of the big cash thrown at them by the IPL. They even started ignoring national duty which has really caused their downfall," he said. Miandad is of the view that top players like Glen McGrath, Shane Warne and Adam Gilchrist retired from Test cricket before their time so that they could earn the IPL millions. "All of that has really hurt the Australians, who I am sure would have not slumped like this if their players had resisted the temptation to earn big bucks that was used to lure them by the IPL." Launched in 2008, IPL revolutionised cricket as it splashed big cash for a high-octane blend of international star players and celebrity glamour. Though cricketers have mostly welcomed it worldwide, critics continue to warn that the league, which has been hit by allegations of corruption, could affect the health of the more traditional formats of the game - Tests and One-day Internationals. "It certainly will," said Miandad. "There is too much disparity when it comes to pays and if proper steps are not taken then top players will continue to put this league above international cricket." http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/iplarticleshow/7259246.cms

[don_corleone840]

:finger:

[Hindustani]

Miandad seems to be the Bishen Bedi of Pakistan, says any random thing with no relevance and substance and when his opinion is not wanted and needed

[vvvslaxman]

Hussey played in CL final for an IPL team. He was the one who scored 500 plus in the Ashes :hysterical:

[zen]

And Pak cricketers got distracted by Majeed because they weren't allowed to play IPL. If they had played in the IPL, they would have got enough money to be not lured by the bookies and thus focused on representing the country rather than the bookies :D Whatever the issue, blame IPL :P

[Sachin=GOD]

Angoor khatte hain :haha:

[kabira]

Lets see Watson played in IPL, scored runs Hussey played in IPL, scored run Ponting did not play, Clarke did not play Johnson did not play

[vaibhav_delhi]

Maligning everything indian is the favorite passtime of the paki lowlives. Why pay attention.

[jaggadaku]

Why is TOi giving space to this moron?

[Sachinism]

Lets see Watson played in IPL, scored runs Hussey played in IPL, scored run Ponting did not play, Clarke did not play Johnson did not play

Katich did not play Damn Miandad may be right, the players that didn't play are now out of form Damn didn't know IPL was that powerful

[Tapioca]

So IPL is serving at least one good purpose.

[hari504504]

HE would've said Pakistan..but then the only neuron in his brain showed signs of a spark- the closest they got to IPL for some time was on paper/ball in the auctions

[HowardRoark]

Pakis are gifted with special brains that are 100% logic-proof and 101% reasoning-proof

[DomainK]

Pakis are gifted with special brains that are 100% logic-proof and reasoning-proof

No insult for the country of Haseena Atimbum.

[achilles]

I can rip this post apart almost paragraph by paragraph but then again, we are talking about the one and only Ayatollah of cricket. So I'll talk about 2 observations-

"Most of their top players got a bit too distracted because of the big cash thrown at them by the IPL. They even started ignoring national duty which has really caused their downfall' date=" he said.

"There is too much disparity when it comes to pays and if proper steps are not taken then top players will continue to put this league above international cricket."

So what solution did you recommend to the PCB? What are these proper steps?

Most Australian nationals opted out of the IPL auction to rest their bodies. So which players is he talking about?

[vayuu1]

No insult for the country of Haseena Atimbum.

haseena atimbum:hmmm:

[Sachin=GOD]

haseena atimbum:hmmm:

http://www.indiancricketfans.com/showthread.php?t=258183

[jf1gp_1]

"There is too much disparity when it comes to pays and if proper steps are not taken then top players will continue to put this league above international cricket." l]

and this is the actual problem; no one is able to digest the fact that Indian players are making so much money; its like saying quality of aussie made movies is going down because Indian movie stars make a lot more money than them so lets blame bollywood for crappy paki and aussie movies

[The Outsider]

Think a lot of the older generation in Pakistan is genuinely bitter about India's monetary rise and becoming so influential in international cricket, and in general as well. These guys are from the days when Pakistan had the edge over India in cricket and even as a nation there wasn't much to separate the two. The finishing off the careers of the Indian spinners in Pakistan by Miandad and Zaheer, the dominance in Sharjah, coming to India and winning a test series. Miandad and a lot from his generation have been part of all that. But only 15-20 years later they find Indian cricket in dominance, the country doing much better than Pakistan and are not able to fathom where it all went wrong.

[vaibhav_delhi]

^Exactly, they are a frustrated, dejected and jealous lot.