WADA and a shrill debate

The Indian players can be forgiven for thinking that an online system for sharing schedules with WADA just isn’t secure enough given their profile. Running the risk of identity theft or stolen credit card information is one thing but having your life endangered by someone hacking into WADA computers is quite another. Mukul Kesavan in the Telegraph, the Kolkata daily, believes there is a case to be made against those holding out against WADA but calls for some tempered criticism.

In the red corner, we have nationalist grunts on a hair-trigger, for whom every criticism of the Indian cricket team is an alien conspiracy; in the blue corner, we have discriminating, non-chauvinist Indian commentators who are convinced that India’s perverse stars and their vulgar patron, the BCCI, have done this deliberately to embarrass people like them...