Last night I finished a column explaining how the IPL wasn’t just ‘too big to fail’, but far too rich to cancel. I was convinced the tournament would continue until it’s scheduled conclusion on May 30. That conclusion was based on the assumption that the ‘bio-secure environment’ in which the tournament was being played would remain unbreached.
Neil, to have thought that any tournament anywhere of this magnitude could go unhindered especially when the cases of COVID literally blows up in your face, as it has in India would be naïve. So, once the numbers got to over 300K per day, I can understand the "fear". However, I have become disillusioned with the way the game is being administered worldwide, generally. The fact that India, England and Australia have self proclaimed to be the "Big Three" and that the cricketing world now owes them a living as a result is gob-smacking. Their collective arrogance at treating other "senior" cricketing nations with utter disrespect and with impunity is a disgrace yet the rest of the cricketing fraternity still panders to these nations. I just do not get it. They (Eng/Ind/Auz) have collectively become the "Donald Trump" of the cricketing world, and they get away with it.
The double standards on these covid decisions are so transparent, bizarrely this edition of IPL would have been better held in RSA (worked ok in 2009). This is the same place the australians were too scared to tour to in March. If there's one thing we've learnt from this past month, ABdV needs to be in green again.
I enjoy your columns, pieces, articles and cricket knowledge, general and specific. Thus I ask with respect as to what your sources are iro your comments on the pandemic in India are?
Neil, to have thought that any tournament anywhere of this magnitude could go unhindered especially when the cases of COVID literally blows up in your face, as it has in India would be naïve. So, once the numbers got to over 300K per day, I can understand the "fear". However, I have become disillusioned with the way the game is being administered worldwide, generally. The fact that India, England and Australia have self proclaimed to be the "Big Three" and that the cricketing world now owes them a living as a result is gob-smacking. Their collective arrogance at treating other "senior" cricketing nations with utter disrespect and with impunity is a disgrace yet the rest of the cricketing fraternity still panders to these nations. I just do not get it. They (Eng/Ind/Auz) have collectively become the "Donald Trump" of the cricketing world, and they get away with it.
The situation in India,is dire, any human with a heart, should donate part of their match fees to help a country that they benefit from.
The double standards on these covid decisions are so transparent, bizarrely this edition of IPL would have been better held in RSA (worked ok in 2009). This is the same place the australians were too scared to tour to in March. If there's one thing we've learnt from this past month, ABdV needs to be in green again.
I enjoy your columns, pieces, articles and cricket knowledge, general and specific. Thus I ask with respect as to what your sources are iro your comments on the pandemic in India are?