Stuart Law calls for IPL window
Sri Lanka's interim coach Stuart Law on Friday said cricket
administrators should schedule a window for Indian Premier League
fixtures to stop players choosing club over country.
Law, who has stepped in to fill the job left by outgoing coach Trevor
Bayliss, has a tough assignment ahead as Sri Lanka leave for a gruelling
tour of England on Tuesday.
The touring squad will be without eight players, including new
skipper Tillakaratne Dilshan, who are in India for the money-spinning
Twenty20 competition.
"It (IPL) is a can of worms," Law told AFP, when asked if it was
right to ask Sri Lankan players to leave the IPL midway through to
tune-up for the England tour.
"The way I look at it is this. All our boys are playing competitive
cricket right now in IPL. They are playing a high level of competition,
working under different coaches. It's better that way than having
training."
Sri Lanka Cricket had earlier ordered its IPL players to return home
early and train for the tour comprising three Tests, five one-dayers and
one Twenty20 internationals. AFP |