IPL must stay in India
It's become fashionable to criticise Lalit Modi at every opportunity, but his stance over the relocation (or not) of games appears reasonable
Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
It's become fashionable to criticise Lalit Modi at every opportunity, but his stance over the relocation (or not) of games appears reasonable. While players do have an individual choice to make over the IPL, Dileep Premachandran writing in the Guardian website believes Lalit Modi is right to stand firm.
Do we seriously expect Modi or other sports administrators to go weak at the knees each time some obscure terror group decides to exercise the speed-dial option? India has the Commonwealth Games to host in October and a cricket World Cup final next March. Admission of any inability to secure the IPL would be tantamount to saying that those events should be moved as well. After all, how many Commonwealth athletes, Usain Bolt apart, are as renowned as a Warne or Sachin Tendulkar?