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Is IPL raking million as fans die?

26 Apr 2021

[caption id="attachment_132159" align="alignleft" width="403"] Cricket’s credibility in India is leaking. And leaks can end disastrously[/caption]

In the Indian city of Nashik on Wednesday (21), 22 Covid-19 patients in a hospital ward perished when the oxygen tanker on which their ventilators depended sprung a leak.

Perhaps you saw the footage — scores of workers running ineffectually in all directions through swirling clouds of vapour, representative of the chaos and futility enveloping India as its second, steepling pandemic wave bears down.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the state of Maharastra, at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium, 22 extravagantly rewarded cricketers, including Pat Cummins, were playing in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match, Kolkata Knight Riders versus Chennai Super Kings, wrote Gideon Haigh of The Australian on Friday (23).

The report added thus: Two years ago, the BCCI cancelled the IPL’s opening ceremony and donated the proceeds to victims of the Pulawama attack — the suicide bombing of a military convoy in disputed Kashmir. It was part of an exhibition of solidarity with the armed forces, which also involved MS Dhoni’s Indian team wearing camouflage caps into the field in a one-day international against Australia in Ranchi.

This time around, cricket has done nothing, just gone on raking its millions while its fans die, having earlier contributed to the incipient crisis. In doing so it’s neglecting what some might call its social licence to operate — that is, the ongoing approval of its community and stakeholders essential to a business’s continuance.

The time is ripe for, at the very least, a substantial charitable gesture towards the suffering millions, and an end to the sickening pretence that all cricket need do is keep itself safe and profitable, because nothing must impinge on the annual celebration of corporate power. Cricket’s credibility in India is leaking. And leaks can end disastrously.

Teams express concern over T20 World Cup

The growing number of Covid-19 cases in the country may not have affected the Indian Premier League (IPL) that continues despite lockdowns in several cities where the event is being played. It will be played over the next few weeks, but international boards have reportedly raised a concern about travelling to India later this year for the Men’s T20 World Cup.

The tournament is scheduled to take place between October and November this year but according to Indian media reports, “at least a couple of full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) have expressed reservations about travelling to India given the severity of the pandemic at the moment.”

A final decision though is expected to be made in June at the ICC’s annual conference by which time the cases are expected to subside.

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