Andre would love to be an Indian rebel

Snubbed Black Cap Andre Adams says he has no loyalty to New Zealand Cricket and has revealed he would accept an offer from the rebel Indian Cricket League.

Despite taking 29 wickets at an average of 8.3 during the opening four matches of the State Championship, Adams has been overlooked for the test team playing against Bangladesh.

Rather than pin his hopes on a return, Adams says he would scrap his international aspirations at the drop of a hat if an offer to join the ICL came his way.

“My phone is on and it wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that if someone came knocking on my door with a large amount of cash I would sign up,’’ Adams told Sunday News last night.

“If they rang and offered me a contract, I would go.

“I don’t have any loyalty to New Zealand Cricket. I have done my bit for them and if it means I had to knock my aspirations of playing test cricket for New Zealand on the head, so be it.

“At this stage, I would love to go and play in the ICL.’’

Auckland team-mate Daryl Tuffey who plays in the ICL for the Chandigarh Lions has also been in talks with Adams about the competition.

"It sounds like an absolute blast. I haven't actually been to India yet so I would love to go," said Adams.

"There are a lot of people putting their hands up to go there so if it happens it happens."

The ICL has come under heavy fire in recent weeks with cricket boards throughout the world making moves to blackball players involved from playing international cricket again.

And Adams said that sort of attitude would do nothing but cheapen cricket at the highest level.

"The fact the ICL is a rebel competition doesn't concern me and it doesn't concern too many people for that matter," he said.

"I think the cricket authorities in every country need to have a good, hard look at themselves and see that they are going to lose the majority of their decent players.

"It's probably even more the case in New Zealand because we just don't get paid very well.

"You can't expect someone like Shane Bond to turn down $US800,000 just to play test cricket and then get injured and be out for three months of the year.

"I'm not going to get offered $800,000 but if someone came along and offered me $250,000, why would you turn that down?

"You'd have absolutely no reason because New Zealand Cricket is not going to guarantee you that sort of money.

"People can say what they want about turning on your mates and that kind of stuff but it's a job and you should be looking to earn as much money in it while you can."

Although his focus remains on succeeding in four-day cricket, Adams said he would have no concerns about playing Twenty20 cricket for a living.

"I don't doubt that I can play one-dayers and Twenty20 cricket well, I just prefer the longer version of the game," he said. "I quite like Twenty20 cricket and I thoroughly enjoyed playing for Auckland. I had a couple of goes for Essex and loved it.

"If I got the chance I would go and I think my wife would slap me if I turned down $250,000."

Meanwhile, Adams said he wasn't shocked to hear he hadn't made the Caps test squad for the series against Bangladesh. But rather than slam the selectors' choices, he admitted he agreed with most of their decisions.

"It wasn't really a surprise," he said.

"If I was Michael Mason or Iain O'Brien and I had been sitting on the sidelines I'd have been very disappointed if I had been dropped for someone who hasn't played test cricket in a while.

"Whether I get a chance will depend on selectors, form and injury."

Source : http://www.stuff.co.nz/