ECB, BCCI crack IPL’s compromise formula….

After months of negotiations, the BCCI and the English Cricket Board seem to have reached an agreement over the participation of English players in the second season of IPL.

Sources told CNN-IBN that English players will be available for three weeks of the six week long tournament as the IPL clashes with the start of the English domestic season. The ECB was previously unwilling to let its players play for more than two weeks and that was unacceptable to the IPL bosses, but now a compromise seems to have been reached.

Sources also said that a final list of English players will be available for the auction on February 4 and will be known in a week’s time. Big names like Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff, Owais Shah and Paul Collingwoood are expected to be among those made available.