Fishing in Troubled Waters

Let ICC supervise IPL from now on: Miandad
27 Apr 2010, 1143 hrs IST,PTI

KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad is not surprised by the mess the IPL finds itself in and wants the International Cricket Council to
'supervise' its organisation in future.

Miandad said keeping in mind the huge stakes involved in the so called domestic event of the BCCI, the world governing body of the game must intervene.

"Just to say the IPL is a domestic event does not work. IPL has too much foreign participation and interest at stake. ICC must supervise its organization from now on," he said.

Miandad, who is Director-General of Cricket in the PCB, said that he was not surprised at the turn of events in the IPL or the suspension of its commissioner Lalit Modi.

"It is not surprising because when you allow a private enterprise to deal directly with players bypassing the boards there is always bound to be trouble.

"I have been saying from day one that the ICC can't allow any Board to operate such private enterprises without a proper system of check and balance," Miandad said.

He contended that by allowing the IPL to deal directly with players, a wrong trend was set.

"Who is there to stop Modi from telling a player, 'Your country pays you so much I will pay you thrice as much' and this leads to conflict of interest for the players."

The former Pakistan captain and coach said lot of hype was created around the IPL for a purpose but realistically it did nothing for the betterment of cricket.

"Already there is so much T20 international cricket being played these days. Why should we have the IPL and one week later the World Cup. What is more important," he said.

No Pakistani player participated in the just concluded IPL-III as no franchise bid for them at the auction. As many as 11 players, including Pakistan's T20 captain Shahid Afridi, were part of the auction but went unsold.

Pakistan has always felt threatened by India.
They broke off from India like a baby removed from the womb of a mother.
Even after use of a knife the baby makes peace with its mother but Pakistan could never make peace with India inspite of using the knife to cut its umblical cord, killing lakhs of people on both sides of the border.
Inpite of losing three wars.
One of the wars resulted in its dismemberment and the formation of a new nation.
Looking into the back ground, how can you expect Pakistan not to try to take advantage of the mess created in IPL by Modi, Tharoor, Praful and Sharad.
We should tell them clearly, this is not Afganisthan where they can ask the USA to interfere.
Miandad and his cricketing band who are burning inside because of rejection in IPL 3 should be ticked off.
IPL is strictly Indian and ICC has no part in it.
I have one suggestion.
They could try to convince the Chinese to organise a CPL because at present only that country has the money to compete with India in prize money.