A cold reality check for BCCI - International Cricket Council (ICC) refuses to provide any official status for India's IPL
Nadia Solkar
Mar. 11, 2008

It will be treated as club cricket like in any other country. The players can come and play for money and practice. They performance will not be counted.

It is a hard blow to all the millions of dollars Indian industrialists and celebrities invested in recent so called ‘auctions.’ It is also a slap in face for BCCI, the cricket control board in India.

It means IPL will have players from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. It may run for a year or two. Then it will treated as waste of money by the fans of the cities.

“The IPL is not international cricket, it is a domestic tournament,” ICC spokesman James Fitzgerald said when asked if players'' performances will gain official recognition.

“Therefore, the matches do not have Twenty20 international status.”

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