Vote for IPL in ICC2009

[agvs.wayup]

Hi guys, IPL as become famous by and large and I personally love it so much!!

I though I could start a thread for getting people to vouch for IPL or not in the next edition of ICC. Pls make your votes count!!!

All you need to reply is:

a) Yes - Why??
b) No - Why??

Regards

[Sachte]

Yes - it is cool

[Typical Stroke]

yes i love it

[carlton09]

isnt too late to add in features for this game tho? isnt it coming out soon?

But Yeah - id like it to go in, its a very popular tournament all around the world

[Imager36]

Yes - No-onne would ever vote no to this poll because even if you never take part, having a feature is better than not having it.

And yes it is too late, they may have already added it for all we know

[Scritty]

I will vote no on this one.

Having just come back from 2 T20 games in 2 days, both played when people had finished work, in glorious sunshine and with subsidized tickets, you would think that agreeing to IPL would be a certainty.

However here in the UK we have had 7 years of it, the grounds I attended, despite all the posotive factors I mentioned above, were half empty (they weren't 2 or 3 years ago)

6...6...6...4...wicket...scrambled single....4 ...4

6's are so commonplace that they have lost their value. Bowlers look like they'd rather be somewhere else (and sides prepare slow low pitches, and pick dibbly dobbly bowlers to "take the pace off" and "make the batsman work" blah blah.

The first three of four years it was great, but now, well into the seventh full season it has become boring and formulaic.

Like sticking your 50 favoutite songs on your Ipod. Or having chicken jalfrezi every night.Things you thought you'd love forever...three weeks of listening and eating you realise that it was a mistake,and you are getting bored.

Far from T20 being the next big thing..In five years (when the rest of the world has had it as long as UK) I can see it all but being given the boot.

6...6...6 Yawn yawn yawn..I used to love 6's, now I've seen so many that they have lost all value to me.

[Imager36]

In response to you, scritty, I would like to say that I have also been to 2 games in 2 nights (Thurs/Fri) at Hove (Sussex), and there were decent crowds, but Twenty20 is now becoming overkill. I feel it is better at Hove as games are low-scoring, and so more tense and exciting, and more often close. The first game was on Sky and the attendance was 3800, but the 2nd wasn't and the attendance was 7000. There are only so many Twenty20 matches you can see before you realise that at least half of it is luck.

[the_trademarc]

No.
IPL is not cricket. It's a revenue-increasing competition with no morals or no care about the cricket.
IT's all about money. Moeny, money, money.
Flintoff and Pietersen might have been fit and ready for a great Ashes if IPL didn't exist. Now both are uncertain to take part.
Hayden's career was finished because of IPL (achilles injury in 2008)

Warne and McGrath retired 12 months too early because of IPL. It serves as a way of introducing some new young Indians into world cricket, but that's it. The last thing Cricket needs is a dominant Indian team. They are all so shallow (except for Tendulkar) and one-minded, I can't remember the last time 11 Indians played as a team and for the team.

Latish Modi should be disgraced for implementing the IPL. All he cares about is the US50 million he can take home every year for organising it. Cricket is being ruined because of the ludacrisy, the pathetic techniques shown by batsman, the lack of ability for bowlers to test batsman, and the de-sensitisation of cricket to the public.

Indian cricket is a disgrace. The BCCI is not a Cricket body: it's like every other corporate body in the world, all it cares for is to make a quick buck and monopolise everything. The ICC no longer run cricket, because if they do something that the BCCI don't like, all they will do is run away and start a new ICC.

Test Cricket will be dead in 20 years, ODI's in 10, and its India's and the IPL's fault.

[the_trademarc]

Back on topic, IPL wouldn't work in ICC2009, simply because the 20/20 Engine hasn't been tweaked properly yet, and it will be way too difficult, almost impossible I reckon, to get authority and copyright to use franchise names and the like.

Plus, how would you try to incorporate it into an International Career, what would happen when there is a clash, what would take precedence, a Test Series, or IPL?

ICC2009 is a pure cricket management game, and it will probably be the last in the line of ICC games, which is very disappointing, but I believe more important features need to take precedence before IPL can even be considered.

[MarksNotts]

I would think it would be impossible to incorporate the IPL into ICC, the current game engine cannot deal with mid season player movement(as already stated by a moderator in another thread on the question of replacing overseas players mid season), the only way i could see it happening... is if it was included as a seperate competition, pretty much the same as you can play in the 50 over world cup seperately in ICC2008, this would not then interfere with county/international management.
But as a old fashioned cricket fan, i would rather not see it in the game, long live test and county cricket!!!

[Scritty]

But as a old fashioned cricket fan, i would rather not see it in the game, long live test and county cricket!!!

I agree, though I really enjoyed T20 from 2003 to about 2006, now it's like Big Brother. As an experiment it seemed like fun, now I watch and woder what the point really is.

While it encourages aggressive batting, it also encourages ultra defensive bowling. wickets are meaningless in most games, sides have number 9 and 10 batters capable of making fast runs, so unless the bowling side takes a ton of early wickets, then they don't really come into it.

I like to see a balance between bat and ball, Yes I can understand that RPO's of under 8 are now the norm, and considered acceptable. But what is not acceptable is the general decline in wicket taking intent.

And as mentioned above, 6's are so commonplace they have become dull...it took several years to realise this, but they have lost their impact. The more 20/20 there is , the more the things I used to love about the game will be devalued.

One national league and one international league should be enough. Now they are talking about 5 international leagues.

This isn't the same as football, the number of professional players in football is around 90,000 worldwide..in cricket it's under 1,800. Many major cricket playing nations only have 5 or 6 FC teams. where are all these plers for these international leagues going to come from ?

They will either be the same FC players in each league (and therefore these players will hardly have time to play any FC or test cricket) or they will be watered down with local talent (sometimes good, but mostly poor...if they were that good they would have been playing FC in the first place wouldn't they ?)

So we can take our pick, watch our best players play tournament fater tournament of T20, or watch scores of substandard players biffing the ball around...both options destroy the game long term.

It won't come to that :rolleyes:

Just heard on radio that local match this week has had "very dissapointing ticket sales" club chairman said "We were sold out this time last year, we have two thirds of the tickets left now, and have reduced our telephonist support down to one person from five"

I've been to my last T20 game, and from the evidence i've seen in the last week or so, so have many other people.

Now I've got a game myself this afternoon, the weather looks great, hope my wife is back from Run for Life in time for me to get there in time.

Scritty

[aus5892]

It's definitely in future plans, but it won't be in 2009.