ICL : BCCI is stooping too low
November 28, 2007 • Indian Cricket League
On the wake of BCCI’s comments on foreign players deflecting from Indian Cricket League to Join its brand of Twenty20 cricket Legaue the Indian Premier League, Essel group’s executive vice-president Ashish kaul said that the BCCI is stooping too low.
He was quoted by PTI as saying “We were expecting it. The BCCI can stoop low and do this. They tried to do it earlier as well by spreading rumours that Lara was planning to join them. However, you can see he has arrived here and will be playing,”
He said the BCCI is blowing up millions of rupees in public money on IPL, the board should instead concentrate on improving the state of affairs in domestic circuit. “Contrary to our aim of promoting domestic cricket by giving cricketers at that level opportunities and allowing them to play with international players, IPL will be using public money to pay big international stars. Why don’t they spend this money on Ranji Trophy or CK Naidu Trophy or other domestic events,” he added.
He said the ICL is doing the right thing and the BCCI has indirectly acknowledged the fact by offering money to cricketers to woo them to come back to its camp. He told that the board has failed to administer cricket in this country with transparency and now it is using every tactic to create hurdles to ICL.