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‘ECB not Altering India Test Program to Adapt IPL a missed Chance’

LONDON: Former opener Mark Butcher believes the ECB must have consented to the BCCI’s petition to modify the Test set program to accommodate the rest of the matches of IPL because it might have granted the England Board the leverage to acquire top Indian players to get its’Hundred’ championship.
Even the Indian Board had made a petition to change the five-match Test series between India and England, beginning August 4, with a week to be able to adapt the rest 31 IPL matches but it’s not satisfied with any tolerable response from England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
“Well, pay attention to.
Let me always take a deep breath .
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as does this state.
I believe it is a huge missed opportunity,” Butcher said through the most recent Wisden Cricket Weekly Podcast.
Butcher stated accepting the petition would have contributed ECB the leverage to Find top Indian cricketers like Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni to get’The’ Hundred’ championship, the ECB’s flagship project” .
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the ECB is totally desperate to create this (Hundred) work.
They must be, they’ve bet the house The Hundred, but in each turn, it appears a larger power does not want it to occur,” stated the 48-year-old Butcher who played with 71 Tests for England between 1997 and 2004.
“And for me, that was the chance at which you are going to say’Ok, we’ll bite the bullet.
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We’d do that for the BCCI about the proviso we buy Kohli, Dhoni, whomever we enjoy, signed up for 3 years to perform at The Hundred, beginning 2022′.
” The inaugural version of’The’ Hundred’, also a 100-ball championship between eight men’s and women’s clubs, has been scheduled to occur last year but has been postponed because of this COVID-19 pandemic.
“And you’ve got leverage to the very first time : you’ve got something they need, they desire.
Clearly, that the BCCI will drop a great deal of cash if they don’t receive the IPL from the window,” Butcher said.
“You even have the amazing scene of this IPL being completed at the behest or due to English cricket.
And you also use that lever to be able to find something that you desperately require.
I think there is a chance missed.
” The IPL was suspended early this past month following several COVID-19 instances were reported within its bio-bubble.
According to a senior BCCI official, the IPL will restart tentatively on September 18 or 19 from the UAE using so much as 10 double-headers anticipated to be performed through an three-week window.

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