What is Indian Cricket League?? is same as BCCI ?? and How to join this pls tell abt it in detail....
2007-07-23 17:56:48 · 8 answers · asked by Fadoo Reply 2 in Sports ➔ Cricket
The Indian Cricket League (ICL) is a proposed private cricket league that will run parallel to the existing cricket league managed by Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The format of ICL will be Twenty20.
History:
On 3 April 2007, Zee Telefilms (part of Subhash Chandra promoted Essel Group) announced that it would be partner with infrastructure major IL&FS to create a new ambitious cricket league, Indian Cricket League (ICL). This league will have a prize money of $ 1 million for the winner. ICL was set up with a Rs. 100 crore (Rs. 1 billion) corpus, and would initially comprise six teams to be expanded to 16 in three years. This will make ICL the richest professional league in the country with an annual prize of $1 million (Rs. 4.4 crore). ICL has already signed a number of major players but is yet to reveal their names. On July 24th, some great international names have been cropped up; viz. Brian Lara. The ICL has confirmed that Brian Lara has signed up and will be joining the league. Shane Warne and Glenn Mc Grath are also likely to join the league by the end of July 2007. It is also expected that Stephen Fleming would also join ICL.
League Structure:
Each team will be coached by a former India player and would comprise four international, two Indian and eight budding domestic players. Essel Group is also planning to set up cricket academies all over the country. BCCI has been assured that it is free to draw from ICL's talent pool. The league will be functional by July-August 2007 and will start with Twenty20 format matches in the run-up to the Twenty20 World Cup in September 2007.
Former international cricketers including Kapil Dev, Tony Greig, Dean Jones and others such as Kiran More have been hired as board members of the Indian Cricket League. The board positions will be paid positions.
Reasons for creation:
Several factors have played a role in formulation of a cricket league which may run in parallel to the current official Indian cricket control body, BCCI.
India's poor performance in recent years:
Essel group has sought to capitalise on the disappointment of Indian cricket fans with the poor performance of their cricket team in the World cup and the South African tour prior to that. Indian team's failure in World Cup has led to lower earnings to Cricket broadcasters, advertisers, cricket sponsors and travel & tour operators. These defeats also caused massive disappointment to India's millions of fanatical cricket fans.
The question of 'why can't a nation of 1 billion with millions of cricket players produce even a reasonably competent team' has been hotly debated across newspapers and news channels. One of the answers which has gained wide acceptance is that the BCCI, the cricket control body of India, has failed miserably in its job and needs a major overhaul in its working and organisation. Millions of Indian fans who hero-worshipped their cricket team are finding BCCI, with its image already mired with scandals, favoritism and political influence an easy target to blame for this debacle.
Zee Telefilms desire to create sports content:
The league could help the country develop talent, as well as provide lucrative sports programming for Essel Group for Zee Telefilms, which lost out on the rights to broadcast all BCCI-sanctioned cricket matches in India through 2011.
In fact Essel Group had launched Zee Sports earlier with the anticipation of bagging the BCCI telecast rights in 2006. This was followed by Zee acquiring 50 percent in TEN Sports in November 2006 for Rs. 257 crore (Rs. 2.57 billion). This gave the company a few international cricket rights — West Indies, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. But these five-year rights were at their *** end.
Cricket played in India generates Rs. 1,000 crore (Rs. 10 billion) in advertising and subscription revenue and Subhash Chandra has been acutely aware of his company missing out on the lucrative cricket pie.
During his battle with BCCI and ESPN Star Sports for the five-year telecast rights in August-September 2004 in the Bombay High Court, Chandra was present every day for the hearings. Despite Zee bidding the highest at $307 million, BCCI and its then president Jagmohan Dalmiya denied him the rights.
The pain of denial has been with Chandra since 2000 when the ICC World Cup rights were sold to NewsCorp’s Global Cricket Corporation (GCC) for $550 million despite Zee bidding the highest at $650 million citing Zee's insufficient sports marketing experience.
In August 2005, Zee again emerged forerunner with a pitch of over $340 million while ESPN Star Sports, the other principal contender, is believed to have offered around $325 million. BCCI took the stance that Zee was not qualified as a specialist broadcaster and refused to consider Zee’s proposal. The matter expectedly went to court and Doordarshan emerged the beneficiary.
Chandra then tried the political route too and supported Sharad Pawar’s candidature as BCCI president against Dalmiya. Pawar emerged victorious but not Chandra. In the last round of bidding in February, last year, it was Nimbus who bagged BCCI’s telecast rights till 2011 for $613 million with Zee trailing at $513 million.
Since there was a Zee-Nimbus alliance before the bidding, media pundits thought Nimbus’ bid was a Zee front. But Nimbus chose to go its own way and launched its own sports network – Neo Sports.
Contention With BCCI:
The BCCI has refused to recognise ICL as a cricket league, and has criticised Kiran More and Kapil Dev for joining ICL. Kapil Dev's association with ICL is being seen as conflict of interest as he is the current chairman of National Cricket Academy, a BCCI owned cricket facility. Subhash Chandra had earlier stated that the ICL will go ahead regardless of the BCCI stance.
2007 Season:
The inaugural season for the Indian Cricket League will begin in October 2007 with six club teams.
Six teams of private clubs:
Each team will have a mentor, media manager, psychologist, physiotherapist
US$ 1 million for the winning club team
Twenty20 format
Ombudsman will look into grievances of players
2007-07-26 08:46:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Indian Cricket League (ICL) is a proposed private cricket league that will run parallel to the existing cricket league managed by Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
On 3 April 2007, Zee Telefilms (part of Subhash Chandra promoted Essel Group) announced that it would be partner with infrastructure major IL&FS to create a new ambitious cricket league, Indian Cricket League (ICL).[1] This league will have a prize money of $ 1 million for the winner. ICL was set up with a Rs. 100 crore (Rs. 1 billion) corpus, and would initially comprise six teams to be expanded to 16 in three years. This will make ICL the richest professional league in the country with an annual prize of $1 million (Rs. 4.4 crore). ICL has already signed a number of major players but is yet to reveal their names.
Each team will be coached by a former India player and would comprise four international, two Indian and eight budding domestic players. Essel Group is also planning to set up cricket academies all over the country. BCCI has been assured that it is free to draw from ICL's talent pool. The league will be functional by July-August and will start with Twenty20 format matches in the run-up to the Twenty20 World Cup in September 2007.
Former international cricketers including Kapil Dev, Tony Greig, Dean Jones and others such as Kiran More have been hired as board members of the Indian Cricket League. The board positions will be paid positions.
2007-07-24 05:24:18 · answer #2 · answered by vakayil k 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a new initiative by an Association of Indian cricketers and promoted by Zee Group where there would be tournaments where in Domestic Teams would compete with each other and also with Foreign Teams . There would be Big prizes , sponsors etc .Something like Kerry Pecker series of late 70's and early 80's in Australia .
But BCCI is not recognizing Indian cricket League because it feels it is a threat to its authority .
2007-07-23 22:47:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ICL is not the same as BCCI. But people like Brian Lara getting involved in it might increase the chance of its popularity. Apart from that BCCI is trying to keep it more alive by using media criticisms and public attack of ICL members like Kapil Dev. Therefore, ICL gains more popularity.
Eventually, if ICL could successfully rope in more star cricketers outside the country then more youngsters are bound to join this. And in future BCCI got no go other than picking up a best lot from ICL who can successfully represent the country.
But as of now ICL is too vague an organizatio to conceive anything fruitfully because there is no brand selling of what plans they have for the next gen cricketers who can productively represent the country in the international arena?!!!
By the way it belongs to ZEE TV group.
2007-07-23 18:23:38 · answer #4 · answered by Harihara S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Indian Cricket League is an initiative taken by the essel group boss Subhash Chandra who also owns all Zee channels......
It is after india's bad performance in world cup he came up with this idea....
Under this they ll be conducting matches all over india nd beyond at a huge level... exactly as it happens in soccer leagues....
It has no approval from BCCI....
Its planning nd setting is still in planning nd progress.....
kapil dev, kiran more nd some other players r said to ve joined it... latest news is that Brian Lara is coming to it....
keep urself updated thru various sources (net or tv or newspapers or yahoo answers) for further information about joining nd playing in it...
2007-07-23 18:11:03 · answer #5 · answered by define.. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ipl is control by bcci, icl is private.
2014-07-18 03:20:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ICL IS NOT SEME AS BCCI.ICL IS A INDIAN CRICKET LEAGUE.NOW LARA IS JOINED TO ICL.
2007-07-26 18:12:51 · answer #7 · answered by hari 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's useless!
2007-07-25 02:25:20 · answer #8 · answered by Goldie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋