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NEWS YOU WILL NOT FIND ON FRONT PAGES ON INDIAN NEWSPAPIR AND NOT MANY OTHER MEDIA IS TELLING ABOUT BOMB BLAST. WHAT WILL HAPPEND IN WORLD CUP 2011 ?
KEVIN PIETERSEN was forced against his wishes to play a match in the Indian Premier League after two explosions near an entrance to Bangalores Chinnaswamy stadium yesterday injured 10 people, including four policemen and a security guard. A third bomb was found and defused.
The blasts, 45 minutes before the scheduled start of the IPL fixture, threw into doubt the match between Pietersens Bangalore Royal Challengers and Mumbai Indians, but organisers went to the dressing rooms and demanded a vote among the players. The Indian players said they would play while the overseas stars showed much more concern. Pietersen, inset, and his Bangalore teammate Jacques Kallis were said to be massively unhappy with this way of dealing with the matter, which went against the agreed protocol of following specialist security advice.
The match went ahead one hour late. Bangalore, for whom Pietersen scored 21 and took 1-10 from one over, lost by 57 runs and must now wait on results to see if they reach the semi-finals both of which are due to be staged in Bangalore, also the venue for Englands first World Cup match next February. Last night Pietersen was reviewing his participation in the IPL.
Bob Nicholls, head of IPL security firm Nicholls Steyn, was on the ground but heard only later about the vote. A source from Fica, the players global union, said: Nowhere in the Nicholls Steyn plan for dealing with such incidents does it say that the players should decide whether a match goes ahead. None of the players knew the third device was defused near another gate after the match began. The protocol in a bomb attack is for the stadium to be evacuated and the teams to be removed from the city. The 30,000 crowd was not told of the explosions.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sp...icle7100782.ece
KEVIN PIETERSEN was forced against his wishes to play a match in the Indian Premier League after two explosions near an entrance to Bangalores Chinnaswamy stadium yesterday injured 10 people, including four policemen and a security guard. A third bomb was found and defused.
The blasts, 45 minutes before the scheduled start of the IPL fixture, threw into doubt the match between Pietersens Bangalore Royal Challengers and Mumbai Indians, but organisers went to the dressing rooms and demanded a vote among the players. The Indian players said they would play while the overseas stars showed much more concern. Pietersen, inset, and his Bangalore teammate Jacques Kallis were said to be massively unhappy with this way of dealing with the matter, which went against the agreed protocol of following specialist security advice.
The match went ahead one hour late. Bangalore, for whom Pietersen scored 21 and took 1-10 from one over, lost by 57 runs and must now wait on results to see if they reach the semi-finals both of which are due to be staged in Bangalore, also the venue for Englands first World Cup match next February. Last night Pietersen was reviewing his participation in the IPL.
Bob Nicholls, head of IPL security firm Nicholls Steyn, was on the ground but heard only later about the vote. A source from Fica, the players global union, said: Nowhere in the Nicholls Steyn plan for dealing with such incidents does it say that the players should decide whether a match goes ahead. None of the players knew the third device was defused near another gate after the match began. The protocol in a bomb attack is for the stadium to be evacuated and the teams to be removed from the city. The 30,000 crowd was not told of the explosions.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sp...icle7100782.ece
