Collingwood calls for IPL deal

Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi announced the dates for this year's lucrative club tournament last week but was quickly drawn into a row with the England and Wales Cricket Board as the itinerary clashed with the end of the domestic season, as well as England's one-day series with Pakistan.

Modi responded by calling for the ECB to make a "minor adjustment" to their season, but neither side appear willing to budge.

If that impasse continues it would seem to rule county sides out of a competition that boasts a winners' cheque of around

$2.5m (1.6m).

For Collingwood, England's captain in the shortest format, it is symptomatic of the problems his players have in joining in with the global Twenty20 phenomenon.

"It would be ideal to get as many English players in the IPL and the Champions League as possible, especially for me as the Twenty20 captain," he said.

"But the way our schedules are because we're the only northern hemisphere team, we are going to miss parts of the IPL here and there. That is a shame because ideally we'd be there all of the time.

"We do seem to be a team that, I wouldn't say get picked on, but we are missing out on a fair bit.

"It is disappointing not to be able to play in the Champions League. Not just from a personal point of view but for the counties. They won't get the chance to play in it because of the domestic season."

Yorkshire's Andrew Gale steered England Lions into an unassailable lead in their Twenty20 series against Pakistan A with a convincing eight-wicket win in the second match in Sharjah.

The Lions set up victory with a dominant display with the ball, led by Yorkshire leg-spinner Adil Rashid – who finished with 3-13 from his four overs – to bowl out Pakistan for 106.

They needed just 16.1 overs to overhaul the total with opener Craig Kieswetter top-scoring for the second game running with an unbeaten 40 from 42 balls.

The victory followed the Lions' seven-wicket win in the opening game on Friday and they can now wrap up a series whitewash in the final game in Abu Dhabi tomorrow.