Mick Newell has called for the ICC to allocate a time-slot in the cricket calendar to accommodate the Indian Premier League.
Notts chief calls for ICC to fix a date for international league
Nottinghamshire director of cricket Mick Newell has called for the ICC to allocate a time-slot in the cricket calendar to accommodate the Indian Premier League.
Newell's comments come after Notts player David Hussey has been signed up by the Kolkata franchise for this year's tournament - prompting fears that he may miss the start of the county season.
Newell stated that the Australia international is under contract at Trent Bridge, and will be required to play for his side come the start of the 2008 campaign.
"Our discussions with David are very much along the line of the fact that he has signed a contract here," he told
Sky Sports News.
"That's the line of our discussion - the amounts of money is relevant to him but they are not reasons why we are having these discussions."
Newell believes that the IPL is here to stay, and with that in mind the ICC need to fit it into a time slot that allows all players the chance to take part.
Space
"It's an international tournament although it's being played in one country," he said.
"The ICC have got to make a window for it - find space in the international calendar where there isn't Test match and one-day cricket, and try and find space where this tournament can be fitted in because it's not going away."
Reports suggest that Hussey could earn approximately £315,000 for six-weeks of Twenty20 cricket.
"We are talking Premier League football salaries for cricketers to go and play much shorter seasons," Newell added.
"It's less demanding work, it's twenty over cricket which is a bit of a knockabout of an evening really so it's good money if you can get it."
