IPL has ended international cricket’s monopoly on players’ time: Cummins

Beckenham. Australia captain Pat Cummins believes that the Indian Premier League (IPL) has ended international cricket’s monopoly on players’ time and it will be a challenge in the future to convince players to value the national team over franchise cricket. . Cummins said the IPL changed the landscape of cricket a decade ago and as such he agreed with Trent Boult’s decision to turn down a New Zealand Cricket contract to play in T20 leagues around the world. Before the final of the World Test Championship against India at The Oval from June 7, Cummins told the Sydney Morning Herald, “For some time it seemed that it was going to happen and now it is happening.”

“Players’ time is no longer the monopoly of international cricket like it used to be,” he said. The IPL changed that a decade ago, but now more and more players are joining it and so I think we have to be proactive about it. But he said it would be challenging to do so in the present times of big money franchise based leagues. “We have to make playing for Australia as special as possible,” he said. But it’s going to be a challenge. We should think seriously about this.

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Cummins also said that the World Test Championship has made bilateral Test series more important. He said he is looking forward to playing in Australia’s first WTC final against India. Cummins said, “We took India to the final of the first World Test Championship, which I think a lot of people have forgotten. Each series has become more important now because of the World Test Championship.