February 7, 2008...10:56 am
Cricket Australia plays silly buggers
Cricket Australia is playing silly buggers in relation to the upcoming Indian Premier League that several Aussie superstars want to take part in.
In a nutshell, it appears that CA wants promotion of its sponsors during the IPL, but Indian cricket chief Lalit Modi has, quite rightly in my opinion, called this request unreasonable and said in the Sydney Morning Herald:
“If Foster’s sponsors Cricket Australia, and a player goes to play for Hampshire, they can’t get coverage in England. No organisation gives this non-competitive guarantee. It is up to [CA], they have been told our position and we will not move on this.”
I think that puts it quite succinctly. No one seems to care about this stuff when an Australian goes off to the UK to play… but put them in this new and exciting Indian Premier League, and suddenly everyone wants a piece of the action.
I call it hypocritical, myself. Pull your heads in, CA!
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February 11, 2008 at 1:16 pm
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