No takers for Pakistan cricketers in IPL-III - Yahoo! India NewsI don't think the IPL has done anything wrong. They allowed the Pakistani players to participate in the auction as per their audience's demands of seeing the best players in the world duke it out. The reason no team picked them up was because the government was being iffy with the granting of visas and probably warned the teams in advance. Obviously no team is going to spend million$ only to find out that the player can't even enter the country.
This has far more to do with the decision making in the government quarters than anything else. Lalit Modi will of course attract a lot of bad press, but he is powerless against the government.
neo29: Calling Pakistani players worthless equates to intellectual dishonesty. Their stats speak for themselves.
They isolating them self from the rest of world :twizt:see one more snub to cricketers by ther own brothers
IPL snub fallout: Zaheer Abbas asks for Hockey WC boycott :: Samay Live
Islamabad: Snubbed in the IPL 3 auction, Former Pakistan Cricketer Zaheer Abbas asked hockey players to boycott Hockey World Cup to be played in Delhi from last week of February.
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Looks like Honor and Dignity of Pakistanis is hurt by non-selection of Pakistani cricketers into IPL by private clubs that they took to protests. Sure pakistani folks are very prickly guys. Some body should remind them that these protesting buggers have much better things to do like protesting Taliban. Do they have balls to do so?? I don't think so. No wonder they found themselves in this precarious situation.Protests in Pakistan on IPL snub
Pakistani civil society groups and political and religious parties on Thursday protested the perceived snub of the country's cricketers in the auction for the lucrative Indian Premier League [ Images ] tournament in India, even as an association of cable television operators said they would boycott its broadcast.
Members of a civil society group burnt effigies of IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi [ Images ] outside the Press Club in the eastern city of Lahore [ Images ].
Modi has earned the ire of political leaders and Pakistan Cricket Board chief Ejaz Butt, who has accused him of "betraying" the Pakistani players.
The Cable Operators Association of Pakistan said, it would boycott all matches of the third edition of IPL.
The members of the association said their networks would not air any channel that beams the IPL matches.
Addressing a news conference in the Lahore Press Club, CAP president Jabbar Ahmed Khan said his group had condemned the attitude of the organisers of IPL.
The decision to boycott the Indian Premier League matches was made in a meeting of CAP and will be implemented across the country, he said.
Even leaders of religious parties, which do not usually comment on sports activities, joined the fray on Thursday.
Hardline Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hasan said, "Pakistanis must boycott IPL matches on television, ban the use of Indian products and stop watching Indian films featuring Bollywood stars, who are IPL franchisees, till an official apology is received from the Indian government and the IPL organisers."
The opposition Paskistan Muslim League-Q said the rejection of the Pakistani players in the IPL auction had exposed anti-Pakistan feelings in India.
"No matter how much the Indians blow their trumpet about being liberal, educated and cultured people, this act has only revealed their anti-Pakistan intentions," senior PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervez Elahi said.
Moonis Elahi, another PML-Q leader, said the Pakistan government, PCB and Pakistani cricketers should open their eyes and stop compromising the country's prestige for "personal and selfish gains."
After the main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N said on Wednesday that its members would boycott official visits to India as a mark of protest over the perceived IPL snub, National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza announced that no parliamentary delegations would be sent to the neighbouring country.
Twenty20 [ Images ] champions Pakistan were stunned after none of the country's 11 players were signed up during the IPL auction earlier this week.
The Pakistan Cricket Board reacted with anger and disappointment, with Chairman Ijaz Butt saying he was "highly disappointed" by the manner in which his players were treated.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik [ Images ] was particularly scathing in his criticism of the treatment meted out to Pakistani players, saying India should apologise and send a delegation to take the cricketers from Pakistan.
The IPL is becoming a big mafia: Miandad
Miffed at the Indian Premier League's [ Images ] snub of Pakistan players, Javed Miandad [ Images ] says the cash-rich Twenty20 [ Images ] competition is turning out to be 'a big mafia'.
"The Indian Premier League is becoming a big mafia that wants to control world cricket; it is not only endangering the existence of the International Cricket Council [ Images ], but also the rest of the cricketing nations.
"It is my message to all cricket boards around the world that the IPL is the biggest danger for their future; if it is not controlled timely it will engulf all boards.
"India is trying to control the world of cricket through the IPL and wants to become a super power; India is trying it and India is doing it," the Pakistan cricket icon told rediff.com in an exclusive interview, shortly after the players' auction for the third edition of the IPL in Mumbai [ Images ] on Tuesday.
His reasoning is that "a number of players have refused to play for their own countries because they can earn more money overnight than they could throughout their careers".
Saying the players are receiving money more than they are worth, he urged the ICC [ Images ] to form rules to curb the League's expansion.
"I can smell that everyone will have a problem in future. A time will come when there will be no player available to play for his country. Under such circumstances the ICC should form rules to control the IPL. At the moment the IPL is doing what it wants and no one is there to interfere. Time is not far when, due to the IPL, the ICC and world cricket boards will be finished."
Asked whether the IPL is a threat to Indian cricket itself, Miandad replied: "Not at all; the IPL will help Indians only, but it will weaken the rest of the teams. India will get the best players of the world and weaken other teams."
Giving an example, he said, "In the past India had better teams than the current Dhoni-led one, but, more often than not, they were defeated. The reason was that other teams were stronger than India. Due to the IPL, superstars like Shane Warne [ Images ] and Glenn McGrath [ Images ] retired from the Australian cricket team.
"They could easily play for another couple of years, but rushed to the IPL, as the amount was very attractive; so when the Indian team visited Australia [ Images ], who were without senior players like Warne and McGrath, it was easy for the Indians to control the opposing team."
Miandad was unhappy about the power an individual player enjoys at the moment and suggested that every player should be controlled by his own cricket board.
"Nothing should be individually done; if every individual player is allowed to make a decision, without any interference of his board, the situation would turn bad for all other boards. All boards should handle their own guys and it is unjust that every player individually negotiates his case with the IPL.
"All the boards should discuss these issues with the IPL, otherwise their future seems dark to me. I'm surprised and astonished how people are investing and how they are going to earn money; it is commercial cricket. The ICC should watch these things and interfere before it gets too worse to be controlled," he said.
He was critical of the latest format of the game, saying, "Twenty20 cricket is no cricket, but money-cricket; everybody knows that it is commercial cricket; the main cricket is moving towards destruction."
"It's okay to play a match or two; that's not a problem. But if there are 40-50 matches, where will the rest of the cricket go? Clearly, it is damaging Test and One-day cricket, and the quality is going down. People have started forgetting about One-day and Test cricket. Neither the bowlers nor batsmen can learn anything here," he said.
Comparing the IPL with Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket, he said, "When Kerry Packer came in, though he was doing it for a cause as his channel was ignored, it affected cricket all around the world; cricket game became mediocre. I see the same future for One-day and Test cricket due to the IPL."
So what does he have to say about Pakistan cricketers being snubbed by the IPL?
"It is another issue that Pakistani players were ignored and humiliated by the Indian Premier League. I am against the existence of the IPL; this is not an issue because Pakistani players were neglected or humiliated. That decision was biased and wrong.
"Cricket between India and Pakistan is better for relations between the two countries. Everyone says there is no politics in sport; so relations between the two countries should not come in the way of sports," he concluded.
Nitesh, as per my knowledge (casually following this story), the GoP released their players to play a while back. It is the GoI who has been dragging its feet over the visas since last year. Their statement today actually defies all the stories in the press over the past few months (I think BBC is very credible). None of the Pakistani cricketers as of now have visas to play in India. I think only Rana Naved ul Hassan was granted a visa to play cricket during the Champions T20 trophy as part of an English county team (either sussex or somerset) who obtained visas from the Indian embassy in the UK.No takers for Pakistan cricketers in IPL-III - Yahoo! India News
But the PCB chief said there weren't any visa issues with any of the 11 Pakistani cricketers and they had the clearance to travel to India. "We were given permission to travel to India from our foreign office and the ministry.
All 11 Pakistani players in the IPL auction list had their papers ready and the sports minister in India was very kind to expedite things to ensure they were not troubled. I really don't know what went wrong, but it is hurting.
There was no public petition to disbar Pakistani cricketers from participating in the IPL. In fact after Pakistan won the T20 WC there was an increased interest as per the IPL teams. The government despite their ridiculous statements seem to be responsible here.thakur_ritesh said:There are absolutely no two sides to this coin, Pakistanis have been specifically kicked out of the ipl and so it has to be. This is an Indian domestic league with an international flavor and it is our wish of whom to plan and whom not to play and with the memories of 26/11 still running fresh it was best they were kept out, and I seriously doubt majority of Indians wanted to see them anyways. Visa issue is just an excuse at a time when other sports men/women, people in bollywood, politicians, journalists from Pakistan have been granted visas without any issues.
Energon,Nitesh, as per my knowledge (casually following this story), the GoP released their players to play a while back. It is the GoI who has been dragging its feet over the visas since last year. Their statement today actually defies all the stories in the press over the past few months (I think BBC is very credible). None of the Pakistani cricketers as of now have visas to play in India. I think only Rana Naved ul Hassan was granted a visa to play cricket during the Champions T20 trophy as part of an English county team (either sussex or somerset) who obtained visas from the Indian embassy in the UK.
The link is hereThe ministry clarified that 17 Pakistani cricketers were issued requisite Indian visas at very short notice in December 2009 and January this year to participate in IPL 2010.
"Two visas were issued in Islamabad, while three were issued in Wellington (New Zealand) and twelve in Sydney (Australia), where the concerned Pakistani cricketers had applied while touring New Zealand and Australia, respectively," the ministry said.
Based on a request from the Pakistan Cricket Board to High Commission of India in Islamabad, the ministry said it facilitated necessary clearances from other ministries in India.
There was no public petition to disbar Pakistani cricketers from participating in the IPL. In fact after Pakistan won the T20 WC there was an increased interest as per the IPL teams. The government despite their ridiculous statements seem to be responsible here.
Now here's the thing, if the GoI didn't want Pakistani players to participate in the IPL, they should have merely instituted a policy dictating that no Pakistani player will be allowed to play/earn money in India as long as XYZ ( the 26/11 culprits are sentenced or whatever). The GoI holds the right to do something like this and as harsh as it is people would have understood. But they didn't do this, instead they kept on tossing around this silly visa issue and kept dangling the carrot again and again. This is extremely unprofessional and petty behavior which leaves a bad taste in people's mouths thereby compromising the sympathy the world has toward India. It has also shown itself to be passive aggressive, subversive and childish. Even now when its obviously clear what has happened there is nobody there to shoulder the responsibility for the decision. They're all running around pointing the finger at each other like little children... "it wasn't us, it was them".... "no it wasn't! it was someone else" etc. This sort of behavior, (in addition to the lying) compromises the credibility of a nation's establishment.
Also, notwithstanding the seriousness of the 26/11 attacks or Pakistan's role in terrorism, there's something to be said about the promotion of apartheid; which is what this is.
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