Sri Lanka coach calls for IPL window

May 6, 2011 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s interim coach Stuart Law on Friday said cricket administrators should schedule a window for Indian Premier League fixtures to stop players choosing club over country.

Law, who has stepped in to fill the job left by outgoing coach Trevor Bayliss, has a tough assignment ahead as Sri Lanka leave for a gruelling tour of England on Tuesday.

The touring squad will be without eight players, including new skipper Tillakaratne Dilshan, who are in India for the money-spinning Twenty20 competition.

“It (IPL) is a can of worms,” Law told AFP, when asked if it was right to ask Sri Lankan players to leave the IPL midway through to tune-up for the England tour.

“The way I look at it is this. All our boys are playing competitive cricket right now in IPL.

They are playing a high level of competition, working under different coaches.

It’s better that way than having training.

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Sri Lanka Cricket had earlier ordered its IPL players to return home early and train for the tour comprising three Tests, five one-dayers and one Twenty20 internationals

The board later backed down and asked the players to join the team in England on May 18 ahead of the second pra