In case you haven’t heard. India has lost the IPL due to security fears after cricket and terrorism rears its ugly head in Lahore. The IPL will now be played in South Africa because it would have rained too much in England.

It’s a sad but very necessary move. See how dejected Sachin Tendulkar and Freddie Flintoff are to the news.

Shane Warne was interviewed by Kevin Mitchell in the Guardian outlining his vision for Twenty20 cricket. With the Allen Stanford saga hitting the game as it tries to welcome more and more money Warney said that the authorities should focus purely focus on the IPL and stop trying copycat events. They should accept the IPL having got the competition right. The future of Twenty20 is far from set in stone for my money but lets see what Warney thinks . . .

“Playing for your country has to be number one. But, if common sense prevailed, the IPL would run for four weeks in April, with a week either side when there was no international cricket. Every player in the world would be available. Instead of everyone trying to copy the IPL, because it worked, they should support it and say, you know what, this is a great advertisement for this brand of cricket, worldwide. Twenty-four million viewers watched the final. Now there aren’t many sporting events where 24 million people watch it.”

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