England: Indian administrators may require resting their important players from the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) in future, national coach Gary Kirsten said on Monday.
Defending champions India were eliminating from the Twenty20 World Cup by England on Sunday. Afterwards captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said tiredness was a factor while Kirsten went a step further saying players had accepted injuries into the tournament.
“A lot of those niggles were selected up during the IPL,” Kirsten told reporters at the team hotel. “We lose contact with our players during the IPL because they are linked and responsible to their franchise and the players take a lot of pride on behalf of their franchises as well.
“The bottom line was the quantity of cricket that was being played and the quantity of niggle that came into this tournament. Maybe we need to consider pulling players out, but whether that is possible I don’t know.”
The international timetable around next year’s IPL is likely to be even tighter with the International Cricket Council staging another Twenty20 World Cup in the West Indies in April, the period when the IPL has been theatrical in the past two years.
India lost their unstable opening batsman Virender Sehwag without playing a match because of a shoulder injury while Zaheer Khan missed the start of the tournament after sustaining a shoulder injury in the IPL.
If fast bowler Ishant Sharma is rested from the IPL he could lose a large portion of his $900,000 contract. Dhoni, himself, is on $1.35 million and opener Gautam Gambhir is on $750,000.
Kirsten also said because of the amount of cricket being play teams now needed to use bigger squads
Defending champions India were eliminating from the Twenty20 World Cup by England on Sunday. Afterwards captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said tiredness was a factor while Kirsten went a step further saying players had accepted injuries into the tournament.
“A lot of those niggles were selected up during the IPL,” Kirsten told reporters at the team hotel. “We lose contact with our players during the IPL because they are linked and responsible to their franchise and the players take a lot of pride on behalf of their franchises as well.
“The bottom line was the quantity of cricket that was being played and the quantity of niggle that came into this tournament. Maybe we need to consider pulling players out, but whether that is possible I don’t know.”
The international timetable around next year’s IPL is likely to be even tighter with the International Cricket Council staging another Twenty20 World Cup in the West Indies in April, the period when the IPL has been theatrical in the past two years.
India lost their unstable opening batsman Virender Sehwag without playing a match because of a shoulder injury while Zaheer Khan missed the start of the tournament after sustaining a shoulder injury in the IPL.
If fast bowler Ishant Sharma is rested from the IPL he could lose a large portion of his $900,000 contract. Dhoni, himself, is on $1.35 million and opener Gautam Gambhir is on $750,000.
Kirsten also said because of the amount of cricket being play teams now needed to use bigger squads
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