Why are Australian media outraged over Ricky Ponting and Trevor Bayliss’s visit to IPL auction? | Cricket News

Ricky Ponting commentated for just three days of the Pakan Test for Channel 7, and didn’t turn up on the final day when Australia won the game. The BBL coach Trevor Bayliss has pulled out from coaching his team Sydney Thunder’s game on Tuesday. Both flew to Dubai for the big IPL auction on December 19th.
While Ponting has just skipped commentary duties to do his part as IPL coach, Bayliss’s leaving his team for the IPL auction has been questioned across the Australian media.
Code Sports, which first reported Ponting’s absence was due to the auction, termed their report thus: IPL supremacy laid bare as Ponting leaves Test early and Thunder’s coach skips the match. news.com.au has curated tweets from social media – ‘IPL supremacy gone berserk’.
On Sunday, the Australian Cricketers’ Association chief executive Todd Greenberg had said the speculations over the BCCI’s second IPL window in September is going to “create havoc”.
“My first impression was it was certainly no surprise,” Greenberg told SEN Radio. “There was always going to be an additional window which is going to create havoc on bilateral cricket and the rest of the cricketing community so it’s a real challenge.
“And it’s not something I think you can just simply take a short-term view on. I genuinely think we need to be conscious of ensuring that all of international cricket needs to continue playing meaningful cricket. So we’ve seen that improve with the World Test Championship which has contributed to Test cricket. Mind you I would say that we need to do more for some other countries that are getting further away I think in Test match cricket.

“This will be difficult. It will be obviously lucrative for the very elite players but will put enormous pressure on boards and bilateral cricket all over the world.”