IPL not beneficial to Australian cricket

Indian Premier League (IPL) is a huge transformation of cricket. Over the years, cricket has witnessed a massive change. Cricket, which was played in leisurely ways by some amateurs only for fun, is now a highly professional game. And with IPL cricket has touched a new high, dominated only by market forces.

Only time will tell whether this shift is good or bad for the game. There are some pundits who are excited about the newest format of the game. But some people also castigated the T20 for being not so classic, a possible destructive force on Test cricket, on players’ techniques. One of them is former Australian great Greg Matthews. He thinks that IPL won’t help Australian cricket in any way. We at Zeecric.com bring to you the views of Greg Matthews on IPL.

“The multi-billion-dollar Indian Premier League (IPL) was not healthy for Australian cricket as it does nothing for grassroot players though elite cricketers are paid well,” said Matthews.

“The serious bad news is that the only cats getting to earn out of it are a group of Indians or a couple of individuals. Cricket Australia gets nothing, grassroots get nothing – 0.0000001 percent of my community are getting a feed out of this and that is not groovy,” Matthews added. He, however, said: “(I`m) very, very happy that Asia is running the game now. The English had 100 years of it and did a pretty average job”.

~ by vpnprgm on May 6, 2008.