I don't think that you can call the quality of the bowling seriously weak, sure there are some poor spells and some lesser bowlers but compare it to what Lancashire served up against Hampshire last night. I watched Wayne White, Stephen Parry and Oliver Newby serve up plenty of filth last night.
Mumbai have Malinga, Johnson, Harbahjan, Ojha, Kulkarni and Pollard.
CSK have A.Morkel, Bravo, Morris, M Sharma, Ashwin and Jadeja.
Sunrisers had Steyn, I sharma, Mishra, K Sharma Sammy and Perrera.
Compare that to what Lancashire put out last night - White, Hogg, Newby, Kerrigan, Parry and Croft.
Ok its not exactly like for like with overseas restrictions but you can't tell me that all three of those Ipl bowling line ups are not stronger.
There are lesser players in all competitions for every Gayle and Dhoni there is a lesser Indian in the IPL. For every James Tayor and Chris Woakes there is a Wayne White or Michael Thornley in the county game.
If the IPL fell outside of the county and international season for England then I don't think we would really moan about the quality of it and we would just enjoy it for what it is. But because it crosses over with our season there is always that conflict and the traditionals amongst us are always going to say that we prefer our guys playing in the championship rather than the IPL.