Chidambaram slams IPL for not picking Pak players

[King Julien]

Chidambaram slams IPL for not picking Pak players​

NEW DELHI: Terming non-inclusion of Pakistani players in IPL as a "disservice to cricket", home minister P Chidambaram on Monday said there was no "hint or nudge" from the government to do so.

Describing some of them as "among the best Twenty20" cricket players, he said "these players were coming as individuals, it was not a Pakistan team."

"...I think it is disservice to cricket that some of these players were not picked. I don't know why the IPL teams acted in the manner they acted. But certainly to suggest that there was a hint or nudge from the government is completely untrue," the minister told Times Now.

No Pakistani player was bought by the eight IPL teams during an auction last week for the third edition of the competition despite Pakistan being the reigning world champions in the Twenty20 format of cricket, triggering a strong reaction from Pakistan government which saw it as snub and called-off official visits to India.

Asked whether he thought that Pakistan was over-reacting on the issue, Chidambaram said "well, you see, if no player from a country is picked, obviously the country does feel insulted. But whether the reaction is proportionate or not it is not for me to comment.

"But as I said, cricket lovers are disappointed that no player from Pakistan was picked. I think that could have been avoided."

Chidambaram also said personally, as a cricket lover, he was disappointed over non-inclusion of Pakistani players.

Noting that the government had issued 17 visas to these players, he said "in fact, I am disappointed that the IPL teams, IPL organisers did not pick any Pakistani player."

"...We gave the visas and we have nothing to do with this," he said.

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

haha very funny indeed . Thanks for the giggle ..!

But owing to his previous remarks , how did he managed to change his views so fast ..!

 

[Super Falcon]

indians are like that sir they have speciallity to change their views in matter of seconds time

 

[EjazR]

What previous remarks? I don't recall any GoI representative saying that cricketing relations should be cut off or Pakistani players should be boycotted. And the visas were issued even before the auction.

 

[FireFighter]

Bollywood actresses have claimed they were threatened into snubbing Pakistani cricketers in the IPL auction, while an explosive report has blamed the threats as coming from Indian group Shiv Sena, which recently issued warnings against Australian players.
IPL auction | Pakistan | Shiv Sena

 

[Hulk]

indians are like that sir they have speciallity to change their views in matter of seconds time

What a logic, did Chidambaram changed his views or you mean to say every Indian should have same view at a given time?

 

[Hulk]

By seeing the threads on IPL, I have come to following conclusion. We Indians and Pakistani's have become literate but we are far from being educated.
We cannot discuss anything like educated cultured people, we get to religion bashing, country bashing and what not.

The decision of not to pick Pakistani players were made by few less then 50 businessmen, if it was not businessmen and if IPL would not have been commercial, I guarantee there would have been no issue at all. For a money minded mindset of 50 odd people we start blaming, entire country. Adding to it, how many people comment based on facts, most of us comments based on beliefs and speculation. We have so much negative thinking that we want to believe the other person is no less then devil. When will we grow up and debate like educated. How many Indian's have apologized in this forum including me, but to no avail.

 

[DesiGuy]

no need to make big issue, if ipl did not chose Pakistan players, since it's indian ipl.