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| International stars will play in the IPL |
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| Category: Indian Premier League |
| Written by Luke Tagg |
| Tuesday, 02 March 2010 19:12 |
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Despite the media-hyped security concerns for foreign players attending this year's Indian Premier League, it seems a sure bet that most of them will go. Not that I expected anything else, mind you. It pays to be an IPL cricketer. I'm basing my confidence on a number of small reports and tweets dotted around the place which show a different picture emerging to the one which shows reluctant cricketers hiding at home, petrified out of their wits by terrorists, communists and the Candyman, while holding the IPL to ransom. I know, for example, that Brett Lee and Ravi Bopara are both heading to India as we speak. Literally - both are on the plane, although not necessarily the same one. I know this because Lalit Modi tweeted it. The man's Twitter account is an insanely useful source of revealing information. He later tweeted that Kevin Pietersen is leaving for India on the same night "the Test finishes in Bangladesh". I'm not sure which Test he is referring to, but the news is that KP is going. So too are the South African players, according to Graeme Smith. "I think it's 99% certain that every player will be going," he told Sporting Life. "I know Cricket South Africa, the player associations and the IPL are doing everything possible to make sure that everyone's security fears are addressed. "We know there have been a few issues around, but I think everyone's making an effort to make the tournament go ahead." Indeed. Mr. Big Fat Security Expert Reg Dickason, who said the terrorism threat was credible, has since backtracked, now claiming that it isn't. The IPL is finally talking to the player unions about security and I have no doubt they'll sort it all out. Even if one or two girlie Aussies decide to stay at home with Mummsie, it won't exactly be the mass foreign player boycott so darkly insinuated by so many earnestly desperate publications. I think Modi was just messing with their heads, really. If not, why not? 
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