A lot
of media speculation was around when the BCCI granted permission for the Indian
Player Harmanpreet Kaur to play for the Sydney Thunder franchise in the upcoming
WBBL-2. This was a bit surprising as in the past BCCI had not allowed its
players to play in the foreign leagues. The main reason was the Indian players
signed an IPL contract which had one of the conditions stating this….
Well,
that seems to be broken soon as the BCCI has allowed some Indian players to
play in the Dhaka Premier League held in Bangladesh and 22 of the 36 overseas
players are Indians. And they have also played some good knocks.
So the main question would be will this continue in the
future or is that all the BCCI has allowed for its players. Considering the
form of the Indian Players in the foreign soil and the form of the foreign
players on the Indian soil, the move should continue and more and more players
should be allowed to play in these foreign leagues, get to know the conditions
well by playing there and add some valuable inputs when they go on national
duty which the foreign players were doing these many years. An evident example
would be when Lendl Simmons accepted in public that he was called up to play
the semi-final since he was a Mumbai-Indian. So the management can allow some
players, not all to play in the overseas leagues and pick them when India tours
them and make wonders in the foreign soil instead of holding on to the tag of “TIGERS
AT HOME, LAMB READY FOR SLAUGHTER ABROAD” which would more or less happen if
the BCCI thinks otherwise considering the pitch and conditions in the other
countries, which are different from the ones in India.
Clause Source: http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/570934.html
Stats Source: http://espn.go.com/cricket/story/_/id/16538231/indians-dominate-overseas-presence-dhaka-premier-league-2016
S.T. Guha Karthikeyan
