The former great batsman and captain of Australia team, Allan Border comes up with the very bold statement about the most watched league in the world called Indian Premier League. Border quoted that the tournament like IPL is just for the entertainment purpose to make the players and franchises who are the part of this tournament to be more financially secured with this brand of cricket. Earlier it was decided to have the tournament like the T-20 World Cup in the time October to November 2020, which happened due to the pandemic crisis in the cricket world.
Although the cricketing board BCCI comes up with the plan to have tournaments like IPL in the same time period of other tournaments which are somewhere never liked by the player like border. He strongly believed that the major ICC Tournaments should not be skipped for the sake of the T-20 leagues like IPL for betterment of young players to get the right experience. Border further added, various cricketing boards have to set some parameters regarding these entertainment leagues around the world and restrict their players to be part of such leagues.
I’m not happy with that. The world game should take precedence over local competition. So, the World T20, if that can’t go ahead, I don’t think the IPL can go ahead. I would question that decision, it's just a money grab, isn’t it, that one?” Allan Border had told ABC.
“The World T20 should take precedence, for sure. The home boards should stop their players going to the IPL if that’s the case,” he added
Allan Border – Players like Virat Kohli should value red-ball cricket more from the other formats
It's a completely different era from the cricket in the 80s or 90s. In this modern era players prefer to be the part of limited overs cricket from the format like test cricket which remains the ideal format to define the calibre of any cricketer. Virat Kohli has great numbers in red-ball cricket. Allan Border reckoned that players like kohli and the A-list teams like South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and England should be the part of test cricket more to keep the values of this format at the pinnacle.
With the 15th edition of border-Gavaskar trophy kick start by the end November 2020 when team India will lock horns against Australia for 4 test, 3 ODIs and 3 T-20IS. When team India visited last time they were the first team to win the series in Australia. However, team India captain Virat Kohli will not be the part of the full tour apart from the first test and Australia team will be on the better side to win the series by 2-1 in the absence of Virat Kohli.
He [Kohli] is an antagonist and plays aggressively. It is up to players like Kohli and teams like India, England and Australia to keep Test cricket alive from the growing threat of franchise cricket,” Border said.
“The one thing that is in Australia’s favour is Virat Kohli playing only the first Test. I think that is a big ‘out’ for India. He is irreplaceable at the moment as a batsman and a leader. Should be 2-1 to Australia,” he further added
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy will be going to start from the 27th November with the first day and night ODI game of the tour at Sydney. Team India will also play the two 3-day tour matches from the 6-8 December and 11-13 December before the test series at the Sydney cricket ground.
