Oh no! Not two of them. As though one Indian Premier League (IPL) was not enough to satiate your year's fill of excitement...Someone had to say it. Who better than Virendra Sehwag? And he put it bluntly. Four months of IPLs a year would see many early retirements from international cricket.
"Players retire karke sirf IPL hi khelenge," the Delhi Daredevils captain is reported to have said. (Players will retire to only play IPL). Not that Sehwag is the first to have expressed such fears, but nobody has made the point so tellingly and with such earthy sarcasm.
IPL may be a huge success, but it is international cricket that the public wants to see, Sehwag is clear in his mind. The Delhi captain is in good company. Only two nights earlier, best-selling author Lord Jeffrey Archer had declared with all the emphasis at his command on a TV show that what was being seen in the IPL was not cricket. "Cricket is when Sachin Tendulkar plays for India against England at Lord's," he thundered.
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