GautiMaan Posted April 20, 2012 Posted April 20, 2012 England and India: two sides of the cricket coin The IPL and county cricket are not as irreconcilable as many think. And cricket needs both Mark Nicholas In the wash-up, the IPL will have improved the lot of cricketers worldwide by increasing their market cap. But, as ever with these things, blood will spill along the way. With ownership comes responsibility and from responsibility comes accountability. There is no reason on earth why India cannot drive the governance of the world game, but with the financial muscle must come pastoral care. Test cricket is the game's foundation, the trunk of the tree. From it come the various branches. No trunk, no tree. Pompous England hates that it doesn't run the show, and the Champions League ****-up still burns. Bossy Australia wishes it hadn't let Lalit Modi steal in so damn easily. One minute their players were just that; whoosh, the next they weren't. IPL jealousy is written across many faces, the haves and have-nots. Keep your friends close and you enemies closer is the moral. India is super-smart and super-committed to its own cause. Only the other day Kevin Pietersen made strong and relevant points about England's inability to see the IPL light. It is typical of a mistrust that has long bothered the game. Obviously enough, its root is in imperialism, but you would think the fellows in glass houses might have found a way through that old chestnut by now. At this moment England might well have the best first-class competition in the world, alongside the top-ranked Test team. Both are born of a system that has been in place since WG was hitching his britches. India are the one-day world champions and own the most dynamic short-form tournament there has ever been. This is no coincidence. Our misgivings about one another are stoked by a voracious media, but the IPL is no more a piece of contemporary evil than the county championship is a relic. There is a need for both. Let the great world spin. http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/561692.html First kp now Mark Nicholas,the English do seem to be seething
GautiMaan Posted April 20, 2012 Author Posted April 20, 2012 Mods plz delete this thread it's already been posted in Cricket Talk section,sorry i didnt see it
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