Re: I see New Zealand did not tell the ECB to go to hell
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:22 am
Well predicted....DMan wrote:That would be a severly weakend kiwi team because I'm sure most of them would choose IPL over country just like the WI players.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/ ... tlook_news" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"New Zealand are headed towards fielding a second-string side in their first Test against England next year after their board couldn't convince the ECB to schedule the series at a time not coinciding with the IPL. It's a predicament not one of the parties could have helped. The New Zealand players earn more in one week of IPL than they do from their annual NZC contracts, which is why they are entitled to five weeks of IPL, which pays NZC 10% of the players' salary, effectively to make them available. However, NZC is also bound by the ICC Future Tours Programme (FTP), and ECB by its own commercial understanding with its partners. Rough calculations, says NZC Players' Association chief Heath Mills, suggest New Zealand's IPL players will make it to England only on the eve of the first Test if they play their five weeks' allocation of IPL. Of the eight New Zealanders in the IPL, four are Test starters, and Nathan McCullum and James Franklin are not too far. Jesse Ryder has avoided a contract this year, and Scott Styris has retired."