Be honest, IPL
Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
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In her blog on the India Today website, Sharda Ugra questions why the people involved in the IPL did not choose to be plainspeakers by explaining their view why the Pakistanis couldn’t be a part of the auction.
The statement would have made us all shift in our chairs and accuse the IPL/ movie stars/ businessmen/ franchise owners of a pragmatism-overload or a lack of courage and that would have been the end of it. Maybe that’s why it was never said. Better to put 11 Pakistani cricketers on the block and then out to dry by talking about “limited slots”, “tactical decisions” and “availability issues”.
Rohit Mahajan, writing in Outlook magazine, has a similar view. He not only believes that excluding Pakistanis from the IPL was a sordid affair, but that Lalit Modi was its unctuous author.
In the same magazine, Ajith Pillai imagines the secret diary of Lalit Modi.