From this year’s IPL tournament the most frustrated lot is no doubt some of our cricketers who are world’s renowned players. With this comment there would be no one would disagree. The Sri Lankan players joined in the IPL despite terrific pressure from the Tamil Nadu government who had even made a request the central government to refrain from Sri Lankan players in participating in the IPL. What was said by one of our pundits was that Tamil Nadu is only a state of India and it is not India as a whole.
The Sri Lankan cricketers have now faced with a very embarrassing position been kept on the bench with captaincies of their franchises stripped off them. It may be
as a result of loses of form going along with the objections of the Tamil Nadu LTTE rulers without tails.
Everyone knows that India won the ICC World T 20/20 tournament mainly because of the experience gained via the IPL .Still there are many that IPL cricket fewer has made the Test cricket and One Day International forms of the game to become very much less popular.
However our IPL cricketers who have got battered at this IPL tournament have been serving as only been the water boys and those on the bench. They also had to cheer the novice Indian cricketers when the slammed fours and sixes. Two of most renowned Sri Lanka of world fame has been subjected to face this unfortunate fate of becoming the bench boys.
However two Sri Lankan players selected for the IPL, Tissara Perera and Sachithra Senanayake had performed admirably.
To date the honours in the IPL had been achieved by Chris Gayle of the West Indies with several Indian players who are yet to represent their country.
It could be concluded that IPL had given the opportunity to develop Indian cricket but not the international arena as a whole. If our cricketers had thought twice about the IPL this unfortunate situation could have been avoided.
From this incident a lesson should be learnt not to encourage and enhance the standards of unheard Indian novice cricketers and worshipping them in the future.
