Ramiz Raja on proposed IPL expansion

Whereas admitting that there was no announcement or determination as but on the IPL window being elevated, he stated at a press convention, “I’ll give my views on this difficulty on the ICC convention. My level is obvious: if there’s any improvement in world cricket meaning we’re being short-changed, we’ll problem it in a really forceful method and put our level throughout strongly within the ICC.”

The previous Pakistan captain’s assertion only a few days after the BCCI secretary, Jay Shah, confirmed to information company PTI that the Indian cricket board could be getting an expanded window for the IPL within the ICC’s subsequent FTP cycle, from 2024 until 2031

“From the subsequent FTP cycle, IPL may have an official two-and-a-half-month window so that each one the highest worldwide cricketers can take part. We now have had discussions with numerous boards in addition to the ICC,” Shah was quoted as saying by PTI.

Throughout the media interplay, Raja additionally opened up on the relations between India and Pakistan. He revealed that BCCI President Sourav Ganguly had invited him to the IPL, however he couldn’t settle for the invitation owing to the political stress between the nations.

Raja defined, “I’ve spoken to Sourav (Ganguly) on the sidelines on this and I informed him that presently there are three former cricketers heading their cricket boards and if they can not make a distinction who will?.”

He added, “Twice Ganguly has invited me to attend the IPL finals final yr and this yr and cricketing sensible it made sense to go, however then, due to the state of affairs, we had to take a look at the fallout of accepting the invites.”

Owing to strained political relations between the 2 nations, India and Pakistan solely meet in ICC occasions just like the World Cup, the T20 World Cup and the Champions Trophy.

–By A Cricket Correspondent