Is the Indian Premier League ruining Indian cricket?

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Ljp86 said:
Perhaps he did. His performances at international level have been mediocre for a while now and he needed to come out and score some runs. Although smashing sub-standard IPL attacks around on small grounds only goes so far though.
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He performed well in the t20 world cup in Bangladesh he was the leading run scorer for the aussie's.
 
Let alone India the IPL is destroying the other teams also. Brian Lara Brian Lara can tell you what it has done and is doing to West Indies cricket the Pollards, Narines, Bravos are all concentrating primarily on T20 cricket and couldn't care less about test cricket.

The IPL is the scourge on world cricket and the people who watch it, support it and manage it are all evil.
 
nairbe said:
It would appear that the IPL and Indian cricket is the cancer that will give world cricket a death sentence if not cut from the healthy body.
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Excellent assessment mate. Rather than breaking of ties with the Indians the English and Aussies have bedded them instead along with the other boards, for what some crumbs? The BCCI will make a greater amount of profit than the other two in the unholy trinity!
 
NO, its been providing India with new stars.....Mohit, Jadeja, Binny, Vijay, Dhawan...such a long list..they would be unnoticed for quite a no. of years if they didnt get a chance in IPL.
 
AsmaNiaz said:
IPL is not ruining the indian cricket . It is changing the face of it, but not ruining it.
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Yes thats why there is talk of a possible 40 over ODI for the 2019 world cup and reducing test cricket to four days, IPL led by the Indians are destroying the game as we know it, as you said changing the face of it!
 
Ljp86 said:
Is the Indian Premier League ruining Indian cricket?
IPL has ruined many countries cricket.....
With the ICC World Twenty20 competition entering the semi-final stage of the tournament we once again see another international meeting without India in the semi-finals.

By India's standards they had a shocking tournament, the group stage went well enough for them, beating a spirited Afghanistan fairly easily but probably by less than they should have. They then beat South Africa, the world's perennial global stage chokers by 14 runs. It was a reasonable enough group stage and one that set them up well for the Super Eights part of the tournament. From there everything went pear shaped. Their first match was against Australia and they were blown away by a side that has had its struggles with the Twenty20 concept since its inception. India's bowling attack was belted everywhere by David Warner and Shane Watson with the majority of its attack comprising of spin bowlers. With the pitch suiting the seamers, they played four spinners, three of whom were smashed to all parts of the ground, unable to bowl on a pitch not conducive to spin unlike the Indian Premier League (IPL). One of their pace bowlers, Zaheer Khan also suffered, getting plundered for 45 runs from four overs despite the pitch having bounce and some movement off the seam.

India's batting was worse. The fast Australian pace bowlers made India's line-up look minnowish as they were blasted out or got out to some quite ordinary shots. The pace and bounce of the pitch coupled with Australia's determination to bowl the ball short proved too much for India and if it weren't for Rohit Sharma's innings of 76, they would have been rolled for less than 80.

West Indies, one of the most inconsistent teams in world cricket then had their turn of beating up on India with Chris Gayle blasting 98 against an attack which had few answers to the big Jamaican. Again when it was their turn to bat, the short-pitched bowling from West Indian quicks Jerome Taylor and Kemar Roach proved their undoing once more and the Indian batters even struggled against the short balls from medium pacer Keiron Pollard and then fast-medium bowlers Darren Sammy and Dwayne Bravo.

The Indians then lost their final Super Eights match to Sri Lanka, a last-ball six sealing the Indians' fate and making sure they left the tournament without a win in the Super Eights stage and only two overall. Once again, some of Sri Lankan quick bowlers dominated the Indian batters, taking wickets and keeping the runs down to around a run-per-ball.

Keeping all that in mind, my question to you all is, is the IPL ruining Indian cricket? My answer would be yes. Whilst the IPL has been a great success for the BCCI administration and the world in general, I believe it has had little benefit for India with regards to its on-field performances. Since the IPL began in 2008, India has reached the semi-final stage of a major tournament only once, that being the final of the 2008 Asia Cup, which they lost to Sri Lanka. Since then they've played three major international tournaments, the 2009 and 2010 World T20 events where they were eliminated in the Super Eights stage and the 2009 Champions Trophy which they bundled out of in Round 1.

For a country that has the best domestic T20 competition in the world, their efforts have been lacklustre, in fact you could say they have been fairly poor. The generic and very boring conditions of the IPL which has involved countless flat dustbowls conducive to spin bowling has ruined the Indian players' ability to adjust to other conditions around the world due to the constant babying by the curators in the country and the BCCI's obsession with shortening boundaries in the IPL to ridiculous levels. The batters have become too used to the flat pitches in India where there is little movement, hardly any swing and conditions so favourable for batting that scores of 180 are needed to be considered competitive. The short-pitched bowling of the Australians and the West Indians sorely found out India's weak batting attack who just aren't used to seeing that sort of bowling as the IPL and even their other domestic comeptitions don't assist the seamers. The pace bowlers have forgotten how to use seam-friendly wickets to their advantage as evidenced by Zaheer Khan's slaughtering at the hands of the Australians and the spinners have been found out on tracks which don't turn 90 degrees.

Coupled with the vast amounts of money involved in the tournament, the players seem quite content to count their millions rather than winning actual cricket matches. The dollars earnt by these players is heavily lop-sided with the amounts not justified by the actual amount of work they do. The best players earn more than US$1 million for about six weeks of cricket, an amount which is really just quite ridiculous. With 14 games playable in the qualifying rounds, that equates to more than $71000 (USD) per game or about $1785 per over. Many citizens in developed countries would be doing quite well to earn that in a week let alone three and a half minutes. Compare that to the ODI playing fee which is about $8000 for the elite players. Hardly seems worth it, does it? The money involved in the tournament will surely see more and more international players retire early and become pure T20 specialists. Anil Kumble is one of them, the majority of his income for this year would be from captaining the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL. Six weeks work for $500,000 (USD), now he can relax for the next 46 weeks between then and the next tournament.

It is little wonder why the IPL is ruining Indian cricket. The spectacle may provide entertainment for the global auidence and be a major money winner for the BCCI but it is doing very little if anything at all for Indian cricket with regards to performances on the field. I have a feeling the underperformances of India will only continue with the IPL looking to expand in future seasons, starting with two new teams next year.

Do you think the IPL is bad or ruining Indian cricket? Post your thoughts here.
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