Blogs Kallis said it best: “It is a sprint”
June 5th, 2009 by kapoorJust as the World Cup T20 is about to get underway, there have been lots of opinion from players who had participated in the just-concluded IPL2. Most of them are of the opinion that the telecast of the IPL merely days before the World Cup would not make a significant impact on the viewership and cricket was bound to cut across any sort of TV boredom. However, among all these opinions, the best was the one expressed by Jacques Kallis of South Africa when he compared the IPL to a marathon and the World Cup T20 as a ‘sprint’.
I guess that is the best way to compare and differentiate between the two tournaments. The IPL meant that the teams had to be consistent for 14 games or so while the World Cup in England is much less accommodating and there is no time to get into the gear or get used to the conditions except for the initial matches against the non test-playing nations like Ireland and Scotland.
