The news that players in the IPL are most likely to miss the NZ series too, raises the question for me.
You cant keep changing your team 4 or 5 times every match, that will catch up with you, and you won't win many matches.
This is not a unique situation going forward, despite vaccines etc, travelling overseas will take a while to fully get back to normal IMO, with new variants etc, so players can expect to be in bubbles when they play.
Also, the IPL is clearly now a priority for players, they aren't going to miss it (which I think is a disgrace in this year of all years), there is also another T20 world cup next year
They are also likely to rest players during the India series at home, before the world cup, this will happen next year too I'd imagine
If people like Buttler, Archer etc are going to miss potentially 4 or 5 test matches in a row, I'd rather they just stuck to white ball stuff and we fully reward our test match players so they aren't tempted to sway, like Foakes etc
England have managered the IPL well with their players, but this is the year its come to ahead, and the players have made their priority known. People will try spin it as "prepraration for the world cup", but its not, its money, and I guess you can't knock them for it
We need to do something IMO, because Root and the test team will be the one to suffer everytime, none of these multiformat players will ever choose a test match over an IPL deal, so we need to incentives the ones who dont get offers
You cant keep changing your team 4 or 5 times every match, that will catch up with you, and you won't win many matches.
This is not a unique situation going forward, despite vaccines etc, travelling overseas will take a while to fully get back to normal IMO, with new variants etc, so players can expect to be in bubbles when they play.
Also, the IPL is clearly now a priority for players, they aren't going to miss it (which I think is a disgrace in this year of all years), there is also another T20 world cup next year
They are also likely to rest players during the India series at home, before the world cup, this will happen next year too I'd imagine
If people like Buttler, Archer etc are going to miss potentially 4 or 5 test matches in a row, I'd rather they just stuck to white ball stuff and we fully reward our test match players so they aren't tempted to sway, like Foakes etc
England have managered the IPL well with their players, but this is the year its come to ahead, and the players have made their priority known. People will try spin it as "prepraration for the world cup", but its not, its money, and I guess you can't knock them for it
We need to do something IMO, because Root and the test team will be the one to suffer everytime, none of these multiformat players will ever choose a test match over an IPL deal, so we need to incentives the ones who dont get offers