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Cricket cannot ignore IPL security concerns

The ICC should be urgently investigating safety measures in India – instead, it is discussing the weather, writes David Hopps in his blog in the Guardian .

The ICC should be urgently investigating safety measures in India – instead, it is discussing the weather, writes David Hopps in his blog in the Guardian.

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What cricket must ensure is that the IPL does not present its security arrangements in brochure form. There is merit in the argument of Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, that India is safer than Pakistan, but only a man of such audacity would proclaim it so confidently so soon after the horrors of Mumbai.

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Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo