Chetan Narula’s exclusive chat finds Jason Roy crediting the English IPL influx to the country’s new focus on red-ball game

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When the IPL began in 2008, Dimitri Mascarenhas was the only English participant. A few others soon came to these shores – Andrew Flintoff, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Owais Shah, Michael Lumb and Ravi Bopara – but with limited success.
In those early years, the ECB were not always too keen on the IPL, particularly not allowing centrallycontracted cricketers to participate.
Even as that rule relaxed, a lack of cohesi...