Telling any cricketer to give up T20 leagues in order to concentrate on test cricket is considered an insult, even more so if its an Indian or West Indian. T20 leagues are where the cricketer can cash in and become a millionaire, doubt it very much an Indian cricketer is gonna give up on T20 cricket and concentrate on test cricket!
T20 cricket encourages slogging (plain and simple), in test cricket slogging will get you no where soon, this is why people would tend to blame the IPL for India's demise. However I also agree with you that the IPL is not to blame only, example the type of pitches being prepared over the years which tend to be roads. When is the last time the BCCI done anything to boost test cricket? They are to blame also. Lets face it most of India prefer the glitz and glamour of T20 cricket (The Rockstars, like Jadeja is a Sir in T20 arena) and most go by stats ( as Saisrini had mentioned in one of his posts earlier) and revenge series such as you are talking about where justifies India possibly doing bad in AUS since the Aussies were already humiliated on Indian soil by losing four tests.
Telling someone to miss IPL is an insult, especially to WI and Indians
haha, you do have a real hard on for Ind Cricket, don't you?
You clearly have no idea how the Jadeja and 'sir' got together, and it has nothing to do with him being good in T20, it had more to do with Jadeja being terrible to be honest. Also Pujara is hardly a serious T20 player, same for Pankaj Singh, I doubt he has even signed up for team. I don't watch a lot of IPL but I don't remember seeing Pankaj Singh ever play in the IPL. So again you are lacking context to what you are saying. This is just another Cricketers are mercenaries post, missing the larger context, and there have been tonnes of those already, over the years.
Someone gets injured blame IPL, Ind lose a match blame IPL, some sneezes blame IPL, someone sleeps late, blame IPL, someone yawns when he shouldn't blame IPL !
Also the players cannot just randomly miss the IPL, as geniuses who have clearly no remote understanding of how contracts work, so eagerly suggest the second a negative reuslt hits. The player are under contract for starters, and their team owners have invested heavily in them. I bet no one wanted Ind to miss IPL and work on test cricket after Lord's.
Its fair to say that only the never have beens and have beens think of T20 as serious cricket. In India every cricketer worth his salt longs to play test cricket. Yes away results have been poor, but short of that, post IPL Ind were test #1, Ind won the WC, Ind won the CT, and Ind apart from the defeat to Eng have a good run going at home. The Eng home test defeat has been put behind and India hve since properly whipped Aus and got a 6 match winning run going. In the same period as the overseas fiasco right now, Ind have won 11 of their last 15 home tests. Away defeats is the
one aberration in Ind cricket right now, and still ppl cannot be patient enough to wait.
More than IPL and the instant money culture, it is the fans and their instant success culture needs to be looked at.
