Players association of countries like South Africa, New Zealand and Australia have joined their other counterparts Srilanka and England in voicing their opinion against IPL authorities who have refused to involve their countries respective players association for planning and looking after the security of IPL.
IPL chairman Lalith Modi has announced that they would not have any direct contacts with players of association with various countries, in case if they have any queries they can convey them through their respective boards.
New Zealand cricket players association chief Health Mills called it as a hasty decision, as they are the one who look after the security of their players and they are unreasonably rejected. Even his Australian counterpart Paul Marsh voiced similar opinion, that it is unfortunate for IPL authorities to rule them out.
South African Cricket Players association chief Irish termed that players are any way going to come back to them for security assessment and information, so IPL authorities decision does not make much sense. It can even grew into a much bigger problem which may even inflict the players participation, he was quoted saying.
Lalith Modi addressed all the allegations stating that they have roped in ICC chief consultant Nicholas to have a say on security arrangements, in fact they are adhering to ICC standards of fool proof security.
In recently to a media interview regarding security, he was quoted saying that IPL security would be increased by 10 times, meaning to say that IPL will spend about ten times than it did in last year. He also said that security would come directly come into control of IPL authorities rather than being rested to hands of franchise. He believes that it can offer standard security arrangements for all teams, without any bias.
He also said that Security has been accessed from last year template, so that to identify the void to be addressed and also he was quoted saying that dates of revised schedule of IPL would be announced within few days, as they are waiting for written agreement by Police authorities about their inclination to host IPL along with elections.
Modi also termed that security arrangements provided for England team during test matches in Chennai after Mumbai terror attacks would be taken as a bench mark and replicated right from players’ arrival in airport to India to their departure.
IPL chairman strong statements and charisma would definitely prove to be a magnetic factor to pull international cricket players to this year’s IPL, which sounds sensible and tainted with logic.
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