India bars players from English counties
Saturday, 19 July 2008
NEW DELHI, July 18 (AFP): India's cricket chiefs Friday barred two national stars from signing up with English counties because those sides included players aligned with a rebel Twenty20 league.
Veteran batsman Venkatsai Laxman and young leg-spinner Piyush Chawla were not allowed to play in English domestic cricket in a move seen as another attmept to crush the unauthorised Indian Cricket League (ICL).
Laxman was due to play for Nottinghamshire after India's upcoming Test series in Sri Lanka, while Chawla was called up by Hampshire to replace retired Australian great Shane Warne.
"Our boys will not play alongside ICL players," Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) spokesman Rajiv Shukla said.
"It is the board's policy not to have any dealings with the ICL or its players."
Veteran batsman Venkatsai Laxman and young leg-spinner Piyush Chawla were not allowed to play in English domestic cricket in a move seen as another attmept to crush the unauthorised Indian Cricket League (ICL).
Laxman was due to play for Nottinghamshire after India's upcoming Test series in Sri Lanka, while Chawla was called up by Hampshire to replace retired Australian great Shane Warne.
"Our boys will not play alongside ICL players," Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) spokesman Rajiv Shukla said.
"It is the board's policy not to have any dealings with the ICL or its players."