It feels very annoyed for the cricket lovers of Pakistan when they see Pakistan players not playing in the IPL edition. A country where almost every boy dreams to become a cricketer in his childhood and where cricket is played in every street of Pakistan,it becomes very difficult to digest this trauma where cricket is being loved with so high intensity.
If we talk about IPL 1st edition and the only event in which Pakistan players participated,it was worthful watching Pakistan players. Especially Sohail Tanvir who got an orange cap because of his highest wickets in the IPL and Shoaib Akhtar maked his mark with an extraordinary win for KKR by taking 4 wickets.It will be not wrong to say at all that IPL is not complete without Pakistan players because in the t20 format Pak players are best in the icc t20 ranking. Shahaid Afridi,Umar Gul,Saeed Ajmal and Sohail Tanvir can be a disastrous for any team in the world and are backbone of any t20 team in the world.
After the Mumbai attack Pakistan players were not included in any edition of the IPL since the second edition because Indian government blamed Pakistan agency ISI and Hafiz Muhammad Saeed for this attack. However there was no such solid evidence against any person or agency of Pakistan.
It hurts badly to Pakistan cricket because they not only stopped for playing IPL but of course refused to play any bilateral series too.In 2013 just one series was played in India with only 3 one days and 2 t20's which is not enough for us to come closer.As India is the most revenue generating cricket board in the world so with no series with India is badly affecting the economy of our cricket in Pakistan.
India is a street smart than Pakistan so because of the elections in their country they decided to move the IPL 7 to neutral venue like Dubai because of security issues.Emirates government welcomed them but the question arise why not Pakistan players were included this time? Emirates is known as the second homeland of Pak cricket and the conditions really suites our players. If it was a security issue than it is not a good excuse. BCCI should think about this issue seriously as their board now got a very competent leader Sunil Gavaskar. I hope the issue will resolve soon and real Aman ki Asha will be seen practically.
Ammad Hassan
If we talk about IPL 1st edition and the only event in which Pakistan players participated,it was worthful watching Pakistan players. Especially Sohail Tanvir who got an orange cap because of his highest wickets in the IPL and Shoaib Akhtar maked his mark with an extraordinary win for KKR by taking 4 wickets.It will be not wrong to say at all that IPL is not complete without Pakistan players because in the t20 format Pak players are best in the icc t20 ranking. Shahaid Afridi,Umar Gul,Saeed Ajmal and Sohail Tanvir can be a disastrous for any team in the world and are backbone of any t20 team in the world.
After the Mumbai attack Pakistan players were not included in any edition of the IPL since the second edition because Indian government blamed Pakistan agency ISI and Hafiz Muhammad Saeed for this attack. However there was no such solid evidence against any person or agency of Pakistan.
It hurts badly to Pakistan cricket because they not only stopped for playing IPL but of course refused to play any bilateral series too.In 2013 just one series was played in India with only 3 one days and 2 t20's which is not enough for us to come closer.As India is the most revenue generating cricket board in the world so with no series with India is badly affecting the economy of our cricket in Pakistan.
India is a street smart than Pakistan so because of the elections in their country they decided to move the IPL 7 to neutral venue like Dubai because of security issues.Emirates government welcomed them but the question arise why not Pakistan players were included this time? Emirates is known as the second homeland of Pak cricket and the conditions really suites our players. If it was a security issue than it is not a good excuse. BCCI should think about this issue seriously as their board now got a very competent leader Sunil Gavaskar. I hope the issue will resolve soon and real Aman ki Asha will be seen practically.
Ammad Hassan
