English cricket to take on IPL ; (1) Revealed: radical new plan for [pounds]50m Twenty20 League to rival Indian innovation(2) Radical new plan to take on th IPL

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: July 11, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

ENGLISH cricket chiefs are being urged to give the go-ahead for a radical new Twenty20 tournament to be staged in this country as a rival to the Indian Premier League.

The MCC at Lord's and major counties Surrey, Hampshire and Lancashire have joined forces to propose a competition that would see nine city or regional 'partnerships' established around the country, each of them based at an international venue.

Detailed proposals will be put before the England and Wales Cricket Board next Tuesday but the team behind the scheme believe the tournament should start in June 2010 and insist it could ...

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