Indian Cricket League
The survival of the ICL has been a great question since lot of players have been withdrawn from the Indian Cricket League.The advent of the BCCI venture Indian Premier League (IPL) still worsened the condition of the Indian cricket league.
Most of the foreign cricketers have left from the ICL due to the strong actions taken from that country’s cricket board and the ICC.And now the ICL have 79 Indian cricketers and now they are also deciding to quit from the league which is a pathetic condition for the ICL which will perish in no time.
ICL officials like Kapil Dev,Tony Greig and Himanshu Mody told that they now have 40 odd players and they can even recruit new talented players which can rebuild their own empire.They also told that the economic recession will aid them to make the courts in London to force the ICC for granting recognition of the ICL which will eventually get more sponsors for this cricketing tournament and also there will be more and more players willing to play in the tournament because of their secured cricket life.The foreign players now in the ICL are the retired international cricketers.
ICL officials said that their main motivation is to promote talented indian cricketers in which they are also succeeded to an extent in which they produces good cricketers like R Sathish,G Vignesh and Alfred Absolem.But the ICL was really struggled to make a sparkle in cricket since Brian Lara,ICL’s biggest signing failed to continue in the ICL after a season.And the sparse crowds in the Indian grounds failed them in which they launched the project of Rs 100 crores [US$ 21 million (Approx)] but failed to make a profit from the tournament.
It was the vindictive attitude of the BCCI that worsened the condition of the ICL and the BCCI started a venture called IPL which quite devastated the ICL.BCCI persuaded the sponsors to stay away from the ICL and they also convinced the ICC to ban the ICL.BCCI also successfully able to convince other cricket boards to shut the doors for the cricketers to play in the ICL.
IPL 1 and IPL 2 in turn was a huge success which again worsened the condition of the ICL Twenty20 cricket.BCCI even led the ICC president David Morgan to solve the issue amicably but it ended up in two compromise meetings without any positive output and the BCCI at-last approved that ICL could emerge as a Vett20 icl newserans’ league which obviously ICL officials refused.
