Stanford v IPL
Most English players will be playing county cricket during the first edition of the Indian Premier League but Mike Selvey thinks with the introduction of the Twenty20 tournament this could be the last English domestic season as we know it
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
Most English players will be playing county cricket during the first edition of the Indian Premier League but Mike Selvey thinks with the introduction of the Twenty20 tournament this could be the last English domestic season as we know it. He writes in the Guardian:
Should the IPL prove to be the success that is predicted even beyond the hype of those with vested interest, then the repercussions will be hard to resist. England-qualified players, up to 30 of them according to Mark Ramprakash, have already had their toe in the water and next year will want some of the wealth available to them despite the bullish noises coming from the England and Wales Cricket Board.
In the Telegraph, Nick Hoult looks at the IPL's latest rival - Allen Stanford.
You do not have to spend long in Stanford's company to realise that he is not used to hearing the word "no". The island of Antigua is his personal fiefdom. Stanford owns Antigua's national bank, runs the hospitals, built the biggest hotel, and owns the island's airline. You half expect to see his picture on the east Caribbean dollar notes.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo