Mumbai: A day after the Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram said IPL’s snub to Pakistan cricket players as a “disservice to cricket”, chairman of the wasteful T20 League, Lalit Modi, responded to the statement by saying that the decision was based solely on the thought process of the team owners and the government had nothing to do with it.
The line between India and Pakistan failed to include the Pakistani players in the future edition of Indian Premier League (IPL), the world’s richest privately-owned Twenty20 cricket tournament is to be the most exhilarating in the history of the game in the troubled subcontinent.
Eleven Pakistani players – made, while we’re on the subject, won the World Cup Twenty20 Cup six months ago – is on the list of players that will be auctioned this year’s IPL. One of them was the best bowler in the first edition of the tournament, a heady Razzmatazz of instant cricket and celebration. Their papers are in order, and the visa is ready. But when the community sale takes place, none of these groups of actors fined a buyer. All eight teams shun them.
Rather, the choice was absolutely franchisees. “We have never said that the government gave us a bump that the decision was taken by the franchisees on their own. They decided not to have Pak players, “said Modi.
HM Chidambaram Monday said: “… I think it is a disservice to cricket, that some of the players who were not taken. I do not know why the IPL teams acted in the way they acted. But surely to put forward that there was a mention or push from the government is completely wrong. ”
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