IPL Franchises oppose BCCI’s new selection criteria; refute to share Player’s data with NCA
BCCI has shortlisted a pool of 20 players and has made clear that top players could be asked to skip the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). With an eye on the 2023 ODI World Cup in India, the board wants players to focus on ICC events, and to avoid injury problems.
Apart from that, BCCI revealed officially that the National Cricket Academy (NCA) will work in tandem with the IPL franchises to monitor the pool of 20 players and their workload. However, in a recent succession, it has seems that IPL Franchises oppose BCCI’s new selection criteria.
Notably, Cricket Australia, and England and Wales Cricket Board have similar agreements with players who feature in the IPL and the franchises stick to it. CA and ECB ask the franchises to share data with them on a regular basis, some of their fast bowlers and all-rounders even arrive in the IPL with a limit on how many overs they can deliver during their stint and it includes both the net session and the match. It is included when these member boards hand their players NOCs, which is mandatory for their participation.
IPL Franchises oppose BCCI’s demand for an open access
Over the last couple of seasons where T20 World Cups were held in successive years, the word going around was that the BCCI was keeping tabs on workloads of players in the IPL. While franchises refused the BCCI and NCA teams the right to manage the players directly, they shared reports from time to time.
Moreover, according to reliable sources in the know, there have been instances where at least a couple of big franchises have refused to share data with the NCA in the past.
“The BCCI cannot ask the franchises to rest a player for any IPL game. They can of course monitor the workload and ask for any data to be shared, but they cannot fix a cap and say a certain player can play only X number of matches or can bowl only X number of overs,” a franchise official said.
With the 50-over World Cup taking precedence and India still a long way from putting together a unit that will deliver the expectations on home soil, the BCCI has set in motion a roadmap for the next year.
In a season packed with a long IPL followed closely by the all important World Cup at home, the board and franchises will need to be on the same page regarding preserving players, if India has to repeat the 2011 feat.
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