PCB To Challenge IPL's Proposed Extended Window At Next ICC Meet.

With the Indian Premier League (IPL) potentially getting a two-and-a-half-month window in the next International Cricket Council (ICC) Future Tours Programme (FTP), the PCB will raise the issue at the ICC AGM in July.

There has been no announcement from the ICC about the window, and it is unlikely to be one given it is a domestic league. And the FTP for the next eight-year cycle has not yet been finalized but BCCI secretary Jay Shah said recently that a window for the new 10-team tournament will make sure 'all the top international cricketers can participate'.

That will not include Pakistan players - Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan are one and two in the ICC T20I batting rankings - as it hasn't done for every IPL season other than the first. That is mostly due to poor political relations between the two countries, as a result of which the IPL window arguably impacts Pakistan s international season more than other members.

'There hasn t been any announcement on increasing the [IPL] window,' Ramiz Raja, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, said during a press conference in Lahore after the PCB's 69th board of governors (BoG) meet. 'I have views on it which we ll raise at the ICC platform in the July meeting.'

Ramiz also said that his quadrangular T20 Super Series idea - which was passed on by the ICC board meeting in April - was not dead yet.

'My four-nations concept is not yet dead. The media seems to have got the impression that it has been shelved. That s not true. They were bundling rights for World Cup events, so they said if they announced...