Post 26/11, the two boards have come closer and on Tuesday they announced an agreement on a range of issues, including the Indian Premier League.
The new-found bonhomie between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has finally turned into something substantial. Post 26/11, the two boards have come closer and on Tuesday they announced an agreement on a range of issues, including the Indian Premier League. As is being widely speculated, the ECB has permitted its players to take part in the IPL for three weeks. a more important consensus between them was on a four-year cycle on Tests and ODIs.
The agreements were apparently hammered out after a series of meetings, the latest being in Singapore this month. BCCI Secretary N Srinivasan said, “We are very pleased with the outcome of the discussions. The BCCI looks forward to building upon our warm relationship with the senior officers of the ECB.”
The ECB has agreed to allow its players in the 2010 edition as well, as demanded by the IPL Board and the BCCI. The boards have further agreed to work together to seek materially similar dates for the IPL in 2010.
It means English players will be available for auction on February 6.
ECB Chief Executive David Collier said, “Our agreement is good for the players, the respective Boards, our counties and for cricket. We look forward to welcoming India, the reigning world Twenty20 champions, to England for the Twenty20 this summer and for the tour of England in 2011.”
The two boards, one may recall, have come closer after the England team agreed to
tour India for a two-Test series after the Mumbai terror attacks.
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