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I don't why Indians are coming up with all these excuses, This is their nature, they have did exactly what they have in their hearts, i am glad they did this, atleast it have shown that how much these Indians hate us... BTW this thing have its share in the corporate culture, normal saying is, if a Pakistani have an Indian boss, the Indian boss will make his life worse than hell.
Go on Indians, just keep it up, show us your true face....
do not forget to pay tribute to your “national heroes” when they will come back home to whitewash your home 
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The ground reality is terrorism has destroyed Pak cricket. In order to get respect Pak govt. needs to adopt respectable habits, you cannot blame PLAYERS/BCCI/PCB/IPL or sponsors for this situation.
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^coz sirf dialogue baazi se aajkal kaam nahi chalta, money plays an important role in todayz life
The ground reality is terrorism has destroyed Pak cricket. In order to get respect Pak govt. needs to adopt respectable habits, you cannot blame PLAYERS/BCCI/PCB/IPL or sponsors for this situation.
Well don't make them part of the auction than, like last year. Got it?
It is high time the pakistani government retaliates against this injustus!!! And we pakistanis should not get subscriptions for the IPL in the west!
Please bring back respect to pakistan!
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i still dont understand what indians r doing here in a Pakistani forum............
i still dont understand what indians r doing here in a Pakistani forum............
They are here to remind you that THEY are not friends..we should be grateful to them on this..
They are here to remind you that THEY are not friends..we should be grateful to them on this..
v already know that Indians can never ever be Pakistan's Friend........
if i would be the MOd i would have kicked out all indians from here
You just contradicted yourself.
All Indian posters are hiding behind security concerns to justify this pathetic decision. Question is didnt they have brains to think of this security concern when the list was being drawn up or which event has taken place since the drawing up of the list that has prompted them not to bid for Pakistani players.
instead of attacking all explanations, why don't you provide a logical reason for this supposed boycott?
given that...
...please explain how all this was overpowered by some vague "anti-pakistan sentiment" that has somehow infected ALL of the various franchises owned by profit-driven businessmen.
instead of attacking all explanations, why don't you provide a logical reason for this supposed boycott?
given that...
...please explain how all this was overpowered by some vague "anti-pakistan sentiment" that has somehow infected ALL of the various franchises owned by profit-driven businessmen.
Read again what you have said and if all that is correct you tell me why they were listed and than not picked. Your point 1 AND 3 are valid than why wouldnt they pick them on purely commerical basis. For once come out of this thinking that everything India govt, people or organisations do is right and correct and we must defend it at all costs.
IPL auction shuns Pakistan stars
Indian Bollywood actress and owner of Kings XI Punjab IPL cricket team Preity Zinta (R) arrives to attend the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction in Mumbai on January 19, 2010. As many as 66 players from all Test playing nations will be up for auction in Mumbai. -Photo by AFP
**MUMBAI: Pakistani cricketers will not feature in the third edition of the Indian Premier League this year after being ignored by franchises at the players’ auction on Tuesday.**
None of the 11 Pakistanis who went under the hammer, including flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi, were sold despite their national team being the reigning World Twenty20 champions.
Pakistani cricketers took part in the IPL’s inaugural season in 2008, but were denied permission by Islamabad to play last year due to growing political tensions with India.
Multi-millionaire owners of the eight clubs, who attended the auction, declined to comment on why the Pakistanis were kept out.
But a franchise official, who preferred to remain unnamed, told AFP that he was not surprised.
“We were not sure if the Pakistanis will get visas and we did not want players who won’t be available,” he said. “Besides, there is also the security issue. No one was willing to take a chance.”
Afridi, 29, told AFP from Australia, where he is featuring in the domestic Twenty20 competition, that “Pakistani players were humiliated”.
“We applied for the IPL only on their insistence and not on our own.”
Pakistan’s Sohail Tanvir, who helped the Rajasthan Royals win the inaugural IPL title in 2008, was equally bemused.
“We have been in demand and made a lot of friends in the first edition but this is disappointing that we were first asked to apply and then not included in the bidding,” said Tanvir.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt said that Tuesday’s snub “depressed” him.
“It is really very disappointing because we cleared all the hurdles in the players’ way (over) visas and clearance… I will definitely talk to IPL chairman Lalit Modi on this issue,” he said.
Of a total of 66 players up for bid, only 11 were sold, with West Indian all-rounder Kieron Pollard and New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond drawing the highest prices at 750,000 dollars each.
Pollard was picked up by Mumbai Indians, owned by India’s richest industrialist Mukesh Ambani, while Bond went to Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders.
Another West Indian, Kemar Roach, attracted 720,000 dollars from 2009 champions Deccan Chargers. Promising South African paceman Wayne Parnell was sold to Delhi Daredevils for 610,000 dollars.
The auction was held for cricketers not already linked with any IPL team and was limited to the third edition, which will be held across India from March 12 to April 25.
From 2011 onwards, when the number of teams will be increased from eight to 10, a fresh auction will be held for all cricketers for a three-year term.
Other star players who were ignored at the auction were Australian Test wicket-keeper Brad Haddin, England spinner Graeme Swann, West Indian Ramnaresh Sarwan and Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan.
List of players auctioned:
Kieron Pollard (WIS) to Mumbai Indians for 750,000 dollars
Shane Bond (NZL) to Kolkata Knight Riders for 750,000 dollars
Kemar Roach (WIS) to Deccan Chargers for 720,000 dollars
Wayne Parnell (RSA) to Delhi Daredevils for 610,000 dollars
Mohammad Kaif (IND) to Kings XI Punjab for 250,000 dollars.
Eoin Morgan (ENG) to Bangalore Royal Challengers for 220,000 dollars
Damien Martyn (AUS) to Rajasthan Royals for 100,000 dollars
Justin Kemp (RSA) to Chennai Super Kings for 100,000 dollars
Thissara Perera (SRI) to Chennai Super Kings for 50,000 dollars
Adam Voges (AUS) to Rajasthan Royals for 50,000 dollars
Yusuf Abdulla (RSA) to Kings XI Punjab for 50,000 dollars.
I think people are going around in circles posting without reading what others are saying. If the above was the concern, why not clarify this before the auction list was put out first. Read my mail from earlier today - only explanation that makes sense is a last-minute intervention by the government. And even that doesnt excuse the IPL's lack of class in handling the subsequent events. As an Indian, it hurts me to say this, but this whole thing was handled extremely poorly. No amount of spin will change that. How would we like it if we were on the receiving end of this treatment?
Atleast there is one Indian poster who has the courage to say that it was wrong.
Not only that you are the only one who is making sense.
This is what we all have been saying since yesterday. If Pakistani players were not to be picked on January 19th then why the franchises asked IPL to include them on final list of 66 players which came out on January 5th??? They could all have avoided this controvery by simply not putting Pakistani names on the final auction list. It is obvious that franchises wanted Pakistani players but some other enitity didn't.
Now I would simply ask those who are constantly yapping about Franchises in the business decisions to answer what I have just asked so that we can finish this discussion.
Pakistan players hurt and angered by snub
The third IPL auction, held in Mumbai on Tuesday, overshadowed by a controversy arising from the fact that not a single Pakistani player of the 11 on the auction list - including several of the World Cup-winning team - was picked up. Pakistan’s players have reacted with anger and attributed the blackout to politics; the IPL has said it was the franchises’ decision and the franchises have explained it on grounds of cricketing strategy or availability during the tournament.
Though the players - including proven Twenty20 performers Shahid Afridi, Sohail Tanvir and Umar Gul and emerging talent Mohammed Aamer and Umar Akmal - had been given the go-ahead from the Pakistan government, franchises were said to be wary over whether the strained relations with India would affect their ability to get visas.
**However, the inclusion of Pakistani players in the IPL’s final auction list, released on January 6, was on the basis of specific requests received from the franchises - every player on that list had to be officially sought by at least one franchise. It is not clear what changed in the franchises’ thinking within two weeks. **
The development has drawn sharp criticism in Pakistan. Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani, the federal sports minister, said he had complained to his Indian counterpart over the incident. “I have phoned the sports minister of India and recorded a protest over the unjust and discriminatory treatment meted out to the Pakistani cricketers,” Jakhrani told AFP. “The Pakistani ministries of sports, interior and foreign affairs had given political and security clearance to Pakistani players in time to play. It is indeed a matter of disrespect to…the champions of Twenty20 World Cup.”
However, Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, was relatively unfazed. “It really does not bother us; what difference does it make to us if our players don’t play in the IPL this season? They didn’t play in the last season as well,” he said.
Afridi, Pakistan’s Twenty20 captain, was the first player up for sale on Tuesday but fetched no bids. He called it a snub to his country. “The way I see it, the IPL and India have made fun of us and our country,” he said. “We are the Twenty20 world champions and for me the attitude of the franchises was disappointing. I feel bad for the Indian people who, I am sure, wanted to see us play in the IPL this year.”
Abdul Razzaq, the allrounder, said politics and sports should be kept separate. “They have basically tried to hurt our cricket and image and this is most disappointing because I believe there should be no politics in sports,” Razzaq was quoted as saying by PTI. “In the end it is the IPL which has lost out because the fact is our players have star value and are the best in T20 cricket.”
The Pakistan government had not permitted its players to participate in last year’s tournament due to security fears after the Mumbai attacks. The wrangling continued in the run-up to this year’s auction; when the Pakistan players failed to procure the requisite NOCs, the IPL shut its doors on them for missing out on the December 7 deadline but relented when Pakistan’s interior ministry cleared the players for participation in the IPL.
Tanvir, the best bowler in the inaugural IPL and an instrumental part of the Rajasthan Royals’ title win, wondered why so much effort was put into getting the clearance from his country’s board and government if none of the franchises wanted to buy Pakistan players.
“They mean to say none of our players are good enough to be in the IPL,” Tanvir said. “I am sorry to say the franchises have taken a decision not based on cricketing sense but on political grounds which is a shame and has hurt the image of the sport.”
Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, said the apprehension over the availability of Pakistan players was the main reason for them being unsold. “Franchises are no more ready to spend $7-8 million on someone who won’t be available for the tournament,” he said. “It not only exhausted their purse but also wasted slots. They want only those players who would be available for the tournament. They are spending money and they want to get the results.”
Shilpa Shetty, the co-owner of Rajasthan, echoed Modi’s words. “We were not convinced about their availability and that’s why we did not want to take any risk,” she said. “If someone is not going to be available, why bid for him.” She also said that though they had watched Tanvir over the past year, they were looking for a batsman.
The co-owner of Kings XI Punjab, Ness Wadia, had a different take, pinning the non-sale of Pakistan players to the lack of open slots for the franchises - 67 players were auctioned for only 13 vacancies. “I do not think that the Pakistan players were ignored purposely,” he said. “Many Australian players were too not auctioned. In fact, last year we suffered because of Australia.”
Since the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in November 2008, political relations between India and Pakistan have been strained, and bilateral cricketing ties have been suspended.
Pakistan players hurt and angered by snub | Cricket News | Indian Premier League 2010 | Cricinfo.com
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as is mentioned in the article 67 candidates were there for 13 open slots...so the point of why franchisees not objecting to the original list defeats the purpose because they are not making the final selection. when weighed against the other players - they would want a maximum bang for buck so why risk on the player when their availabilty is a suspect?
all the 54 candidates who did not make the final cut - had something or the other against them - which does not mean that they should not have been included in the list
as is mentioned in the article 67 candidates were there for 13 open slots...so the point of why franchisees not objecting to the original list defeats the purpose because they are not making the final selection. when weighed against the other players - they would want a maximum bang for buck so why risk on the player when their availabilty is a suspect?
all the 54 candidates who did not make the final cut - had something or the other against them - which does not mean that they should not have been included in the list
this does not holds. If franchises "asks" for some player 2 weeks ago (in fact 11 of them), chances are they are going to bid for them. What has changed b/w then and now will remain mystery. Players availability situation has not changed in these 2 weeks. they are AS LIKELY to play as they were 2 weeks ago.
anyways, I am happy at PCB's reaction of "what difference does it make to us?" ... like "I dont give a $hit". official body should always be politically correct and let other do talking and i guess this is what Modi (and IPL/BCCI) did. They tried to be politically correct by listing the Pakistani players but somehow made sure no one gets selected.
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IBNLive : Gaurav Kalra’s Blog : IPL3 auction: Lies, damned lies and other such balderdash
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Even though I agree with the above article , I'm happy that Afridi got what he deserved :)
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^ I agree with this part of the blog
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Before the auction began the owners should have issued a statement with a text along the following lines:
"We, the team owners of the Indian Premier League regret to announce that none of us will be bidding for any Pakistani players at today's auction. We have arrived at this decision with a heavy heart and after detailed consultations amongst ourselves. Our decision has been conveyed to IPL chairman Lalit Modi and we have requested him to convey the same to the 11 players who were up for auction and the PCB. While we are in no doubt about the high calibre of the Pakistani players available, our hand has been forced by matters beyond ours and indeed the players' control. We fear that in the current political environment, the presence of Pakistani players may create unexpected security concerns which are best avoided at this time. We apologise to the players and the Pakistan Cricket Board for the inconvenience caused in getting security clearances from their foreign and interior ministries. We would also like to assure the players that the door is not closed on them for future editions of the IPL and it remains our sincere hope that fans will be able to enjoy their resplendent talent in this tournament's future editions".
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If I am the author of above piece, I better be writing up a 5 page article on How Great/awesome Sachin is in this weekend’s special edition in all newspapers in India…otherwise, Somebody gooona get hurrd…reeel bayd!