First of all, I must say I'm not a great fan of Cricket but I personally believe one of the aspects of any game or sports event to foster harmony and peace. It is not a new concept about which we are talking, rather comes from the history of civilization. If we look at the ancient Olympics, we can see at the time of that event, whole Greece (Macedonia then) was involved in ancient Olympics and there was peace at the time of the event.
Similarly in several occasion, we've seen sports as a bridge between two culture and sports person often stepped as a brand ambassador for the country (s)he represents. Although there are some exceptions where politics blended with sports, those cases are still seen as an undesirable sporadic incidences.
But this IPL Auction has crossed all the limits. Initially it has been tactfully spread out by Mr. Lalit Modi and his contingent that actually it is pure cricketing reason for which the cricketers of Pakistan didn't make it through any franchise .Some critics commented out this is bullshit as Pakistan has got good number of players suitable for this format of Cricket. Then some clever official spread rumor indirectly that because of government permission regarding visa prompted franchise not to take any cricketers of Pakistan.
Couple of bitter pills to Mr. Lalit Modi once again:
First,Wasim Akram, bowling consultant of Knight Riders, is a former cricketer of Pakistan. If he doesn't have any problem to get VISA permission from the Indian government, then it is beyond common sense why any cricketer of the same country would have been facing problem?
Second, several Singers and other professionals from Pakistan can get VISA from the government of India. Does Mr. Lalit Modi deny the fact?
Day before yesterday, honorable Home Minster told to the reporters that he never thought that there would be any such problem. Now we should demand to IPL committee that why they are hiding facts ? Specially as these kind of irrational activities simply act as an adverse direction of the direction of the path through which most of the person of both the present generation of India and the present generation of Pakistan want to move. Does IPL committee will take the moral responsibility of this gesture?
While we've seen in the past, Cricket, at least most of the times acts as a stimulant to build relationship between these two country.But this time it simply acted unwarrantably. Lastly if IPL committee has had any issue with the cricketers of Pakistan , it could have been sorted out otherwise; at least it would have been better than what happened if none of the cricketer of Pakistan been put into the auction. Its because of an unfair and unprofessional attitude of IPL committee , whole cricketing fraternity will be affected.
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