The completion of Indian Premier League’s Edition Five gives the mandarins of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) a chance to introspect on how the glamourous Twenty20 league is helping Indian cricket.

It is surely a financially viable and exciting product, but experts reckon it is also hindering Indian cricket because the form of the game doesn’t lend itself to the kind of skills that are needed to prosper in first-class and Test cricket.