FILE PHOTO: Horse Racing - Ladbrokes St Leger Festival - Doncaster Racecourse - 10/9/14 Former cricketer Geoffrey Boycott watches in the parade ring before the 15.35 Clipper Logistics Leger Legends Classified Stakes Mandatory Credit: Action Images / Julian Herbert
LONDON (Reuters) - The English cricket board must stop treating its players in a "namby-pamby way" and dock money if they put the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) above national duty, former test batsman Geoffrey Boycott said.
Head coach Chris Silverwood has said England players would be allowed to miss the start of the test series against New Zealand in June if their IPL teams make the final of the Twenty20 competition.
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