• Participation in entire seven-week league is possible• Players have in the past had to return for home internationalsEngland’s cricketers look set to be granted full availability for next year’s Indian
Premier League – a first since the tournament’s inception in 2008.
In the past 12 editions of the IPL
England players have had to fly home early for the start of the home international summer and it is only recently, amid the rise of the one-day team, that such players as Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow have truly overcome this issue at the auction.