Security or IPL?

After all talks of integrity spirit of cricket etc., recently Australian players are in the news again trying the maximum to avoid touring Pak. Normally it would make sense and with a opposition party leader assasinated so easily, anyone would be concerned about security. But in this case now it seems more like australian players wanting to participate in IPL by foregoing the Pakistan tour.

Somehow no one really mentions that. Neither Pak,nor CA, nor Austrlian players. It seems to be internally felt by everyone but not spelt out. Lalit Modi is all too powerful today. But I guess this franchising concept wouldnt really fly off in cricket atleast in India. We dont care about how our players perform if they do not play for India. Unless it is Sachin whose cricket we follow to even the smallest of first class torunaments, the rest are unimportant to the ardent Indian fan and the IPL might realise this as it flags off and that would probably be an end to people like Lalit Modi.

But by the time this IPL fails we will get to see a lot of people bending backwards changing allegiance, loss of faces, loss of integrity and some big loss of money. Some constant source of news for the newsmen and some fun for all involved.