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Sydney, Jun 2 : With the ICC yet to decide on a separate window in the international calendar for the IPL, a FICA survey reveals that almost a third of players are willing to retire early in order to play in the lucrative Twenty20 tournament.
"The Indian Premier League continues to be popular with the players, and its superior pay structures for the players continue to challenge players' priority over international cricket," International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) chief executive Tim May was quoted as saying by the 'Sydney Morning Herald'..
"When players are able to earn over ten times their annual salary from their boards, for just seven weeks' cricket in the IPL, it would be foolhardy of boards to continue to schedule international matches during IPL, and expect players to remain loyal to the board and international cricket," he added.
The survey also indicated 54 per cent of players would retire from one or more formats of the game because of too much international cricket.
The survey also revealed that a vast majority of international cricketers want tougher punishment for Pakistan players implicated in the spot-fixing controversy.
Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer were banned for five year by the Intrnational Cricket Council (ICC), but more than three-quarters of players surveyed feel that the punishment is inadequate.
"The vast number of players want significant penalties to be invoked against those who are found guilty of serious corruption offences.
"Whilst 100 per cent of players say that they will report any corrupt approaches made to them, 20 per cent of them do not have confidence in the ICC to treat this information confidentially," May said.
"The vast majority of the 45 players polled were more comfortable reporting corruption approaches to their team manager, than to the ICC Anti-Corruption Unit," MAy added.
--UNI
"The Indian Premier League continues to be popular with the players, and its superior pay structures for the players continue to challenge players' priority over international cricket," International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) chief executive Tim May was quoted as saying by the 'Sydney Morning Herald'..
"When players are able to earn over ten times their annual salary from their boards, for just seven weeks' cricket in the IPL, it would be foolhardy of boards to continue to schedule international matches during IPL, and expect players to remain loyal to the board and international cricket," he added.
The survey also indicated 54 per cent of players would retire from one or more formats of the game because of too much international cricket.
The survey also revealed that a vast majority of international cricketers want tougher punishment for Pakistan players implicated in the spot-fixing controversy.
Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer were banned for five year by the Intrnational Cricket Council (ICC), but more than three-quarters of players surveyed feel that the punishment is inadequate.
"The vast number of players want significant penalties to be invoked against those who are found guilty of serious corruption offences.
"Whilst 100 per cent of players say that they will report any corrupt approaches made to them, 20 per cent of them do not have confidence in the ICC to treat this information confidentially," May said.
"The vast majority of the 45 players polled were more comfortable reporting corruption approaches to their team manager, than to the ICC Anti-Corruption Unit," MAy added.
--UNI
