The eternal optimist in me believes that nothing can come in the way of sport being the balm that can soothe the surging emotions and, at the same, be the fuel that will drive the intense passion to watch competitive sport in the sub-continent. At the moment, all that is threatened as logic seems to be in severe short supply.
There was so little logic in the manner in which the Indian Premier League franchisees collectively ignored the claims of Pakistan players. There was none when it was suggested that franchisees had made the decision because they had taken their teams’ balance into account. “If a team has one player to buy, will it buy a player of 100 per cent chance of risk? Obviously not!” IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi said.
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