ICC President David Morgan has said that the home and away rule, under which teams have to play each other twice over a six-year cycle, could be relaxed in the post-2012 FTP.

But May said such an arrangement would not help much because the free time on the calendar would be taken up by IPL and the Champions League.

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"If you assume that the best players in world will play IPL and then aggregate these matches with the proposed international calendar, the players will be playing more days cricket in the period 2012-2020 than they previously did. More is not better, context is vital and the sooner ICC schedule matches according to an agreed context (annual or bi-annual championships) the better the game will be," May said.