England Cricket Team may have never won a major international cricket title and Michael Vaughan feels that they do not have any chance unless their players are released for the next season’s Indian Premier League i.e IPL 2010
“We should be making our players available for the whole of the IPL 2010,” the former England captain said today. “We are not great at T20 cricket. We’ve got a Twenty20 World Cup in May and at the minute we’ve got no chance. If it was my England team I’d be looking at the first-team players and thinking that I want them to experience playing in those IPL Matches, I’d want to have them playing in those packed stadiums and picking the brains of all those great players. That will give us a better chance of winning the Twenty20 World Cup.
“We have to give our players as much opportunity as possible to try and win a trophy,” continued Vaughan, who was speaking at the launch of his new role as the public face of the Advanced Hair Studio. “England should take the guys who could do with a rest from Test cricket and send them to play in the IPL to develop their Twenty20 skills.” Such a move, however, would mean that the players were unavailable for England’s tour to Bangladesh in the spring.
IPL 2010 auction is scheduled for 19 January, with each franchise having a budget of $750,000 to spend on new recruits. Eoin Morgan and Jonathan Trott are both believed to have been in contact with teams over their possible availability.
Aside from Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff and Paul Collingwood, who are all already signed up with IPL Teams, Vaughan feels England should clear the schedules of Stuart Broad, Trott, Morgan, Graeme Swann and James Anderson to allow maximum exposure to the short form of the game.
“This one-day team is one of the best I’ve seen,” he said, “especially in the range of options we have. The fielding unit is very athletic and with the bat we’ve certainly got different styles of batsmen, which is crucial.
“I like the way the team are playing, and I don’t think the back-up and management teams are being given enough credit for that. For a team to operate in such an effortless mode, the backroom staff are doing a lot right. The players are playing with an energy and a vibrancy and an enjoyment, which means that what they are doing in training is right”
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