With the IPL safely behind us, let us look at the Club Vs Country debate dispassionately. We will focus on cricket, but learn generously from sports like football - which have been grappling with this issue for a lot longer. There are 2 primary questions to answer – 1. If a player has a conflict between a country game and a club game, what should he/she choose? 2. If the player has to miss playing in order to rest the body (an increasingly important aspect of modern professional sports), should he/she choose to rest country games or club games? Alas, it is not a easy choice to make because of a few key reasons – playing for the country is considered patriotic (equating players to soldiers in some instances) thus making players feel like they are traitors if they choose club over country. On the other hand, players do make more money per game playing for a club – and it is hard to choose country over club and end up the poorer because of the choice. Le
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