England cricketers told internationals take priority over IPL duty

Mooted September return would clash with England toursGiles: ‘If those tours go ahead, I’d expect them to be there’England players are likely to be ruled out of the Indian Premier League’s mooted resumption later this year following an insistence from Ashley Giles, their team director, that international cricket now takes priority. An outbreak of Covid-19 among the IPL’s franchises forced the tournament to be indefinitely suspended last week with 31 games still outs