IPL: Black Caps Given May 1 deadline

Black caps in the IPL - Daniel Vettori, Brendon McCullum, Jacob Oram, Ross Talyor and Kyle Mills have been asked to report for national duty by May 1. This decision was arrived at after talks between the IPL contracted players, coach, all the members of the New Zealand team and even the English cricketing authorities.
It was decided that a 2 week period of acclimatization for sufficient for these professional cricketers.
Change is in the air and IPL is the face of that change. We can’t afford to ignore the changes sweeping the world of cricket so we need to keep that in mind while planning out our cricketing agenda was the general gist of the New Zealand Cricket’s CEO’s statement.