Thursday, April 22, 2010

Is IPL important than playing for the country......No WAY !!!

Today's big news for me was that Sehwag wont be available for the T20 World Cup.The first thought came to my mind was that, had Delhi reached the semis of the IPL,Sehwag would have definitely participated even while suffering from the injury.
This is very sad because it seems that more and more people are interested in playing in the IPL rather than representing the country :( With all the money and glamour attached to the IPL,i guess we will be soon seeing players who will play only IPL.The perfect example is Symonds.He didnt even care when he was dropped from the Australian team because he was well aware that he can earn more money by playing for just few weeks in the IPL.Same is the case for other players like Shane Bond and Adam Gilchrist.All the foreign players had some serious security problems to play in India when they were playing for their country.Surprisingly,even though there were couple of bomb blasts in Banglore,none of the players decided to boycott the games.I am pretty sure that had these bomb blasts taken place during a International game,we could have seen the match being called off :(
The more serious issue which will be seen in the future is more and more youngsters will aim for IPL rather than the test cap which is very unfortunate.We just cannot let the Test Cricket die.
Its high time the boards of all the countries along with the ICC take some steps to ensure that the IPL doesnt overshadow the international cricket :(
When some reporter quizzed Dhoni about the preparation for the T20 world cup,he said that the Indian team would have been in a great shape if we hadnt played in the IPL.Well,atleast he had the guts to say the truth....