Graham Napier shrugs aside Indian Premier League fears with Mumbai Indians

By Paul Bolton Published: 7:16PM GMT 02 Mar 2010

All-round star: Graham Napier was penetrating to react Mumbai Indians of the IPL after being ignored by England for the World Twenty20 Photo: PA

Napier arrived in India early on Tuesday sunrise and went true in to a precision event with the Mumbai Indians.

England all-rounder Ravi Bopara was due to follow Napier, his county team-mate, to India to take up his stipulate with King"s XI Punjab.

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Napier and Bopara had behind their depart since of concerns of the capability of the IPL organisers to exercise the recommendations of a security inform conducted by Dubai-based specialists Nicholls Steyn and Associates.

But Reg Dickason, a security consultant operative for the Federation of International Cricketers" Associations, has right away indicated the security issues are starting to be addressed.

"The incident is improving," pronounced Vikram Solanki, authority of the Professional Cricketers" Association.

Six alternative England players Paul Collingwood, Kevin Pietersen and Eoin Morgan who are on general avocation in Bangladesh and Hampshire span Dimitri Mascarenhas and Michael Lumb and Middlesex"s Owais Shah are due to follow Napier and Bopara to the IPL.

The debate surrounding the appointment of Peter Wright, the Nottinghamshire chairman, as a senior manager of the England and Wales Cricket Board and the cricket chairman-elect has strong with a notice that he could face a dispute of interest.

Leicestershire authority Neil Davidson believes that Wright, who is handling senior manager of apparatus manufacturer Gunn and Moore, should not lay on the house of an organization that awards remunerative pack deals.

"There is the intensity for a dispute of interest," Davidson said. "I have done that point to Peter but obviously he doesn"t think it is an issue and nor do the ECB. I think it is a concern."

The ECB mounted a counterclaim of Wright, who is set to attain Jack Simmons as cricket authority on Mar 31 though due inherent changes meant that he competence be quickly transposed by an ECB appointee.

"The cricket cabinet action in an advisory genius and putting contracts out to proposal is not inside of the remit," pronounced an ECB spokesman. "We have usually not long ago cumulative a remunerative and long-term apparatus stipulate with Adidas so there are no vital deals due for renewal. Peter has additionally done it transparent that if there was a intensity dispute of seductiveness he would mount in reserve on that issue."

But concerns about Wright"s miss of first-class personification experience endure and until the ECB decides who will chair the cricket cabinet on a long-term basis, plans for a vital renovate of the County Championship are expected to sojourn at the contention stage.

Leicestershire"s arch senior manager David Smith was due to benefaction a paper on Championship remodel to the ECB cricket cabinet at Lord"s yesterday but the assembly was deferred since of the debate surrounding Wright"s election.

Former Australia Prime Minister John Howard has been nominated by the Australian and New Zealand play to offer as International Cricket Council boss from 2012.