backfootpunch wrote:Adi wrote:http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/21746867/ipl-now-window-icc-future-tours-programme
The Indian Premier League has been all but formally recognised in the new Future Tours Programme as a global event. In the next FTP cycle (2019-23), the IPL is the only domestic Twenty20 league during which all international cricket will come to a halt, for a period of two months, across April and May.
That's a joke really
If there was a yearly international t20 comp it would make sense
But to stop international cricket for the IPL seems farcical
Indeed it is a shambles, the traditional English season gets pushed back or even shrunk for a domestic T20 tournament. From recent experience it is better for international cricket to be played in May than later September in England when the dew really kicks in.
I suppose England players should be available more for their counties.