The India-Pakistan conflict sparked a mixed response from foreign players in the IPLCreating uncertainty about their return for the rest of the tournament. While some coaches love Ricky PontingThere remain on site, a large number of players, frightened by security problems, have already returned home.Saturday evening, Punjab Kings (PBKS) Coach Ricky Ponting had embarked on the flight from New Delhi when he heard the announcement of a cease-fire between India and Pakistan.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!“Congratulations to Ricky. He returned home. He even climbed on the flight, but when we sent him the message that a cease-fire was announced, he returned. Brad Haddin (assistant coach) is also,” said CEO of CEO, Shapea Menon, in Timesofindia.com.However, the Australian PBKS contingent, including Marcus Stoinis, Josh Inglis and Xavier Bartlett, returned home. After the Dharamsala luminaire between the kings of Punjab and Delhi capital Was interrupted halfway for security reasons, Panic seized the players abroad from all the teams.Who is this IPL player?The PBKs are in the race to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2014, and the franchise hopes to have a team full of strength once IPL is restarting. The kings of Punjab are currently classified third with 15 points.“Our boys will come back. Ricky and Brad have given the example. We are waiting for the official instruction of the BCCI, and we are only going to touch our players,” said Menon.
He was reliably learned that the BCCI and the Governance Council of the IPL verbally asked the franchises to bring their teams for the 16 remaining games, which should start before Friday, May 16.Timesofindia.com has also learned that a better player abroad with the Capitals of Delhi refused to return. “The kit bags of all cricket players are only here in India. Let’s wait and see what’s going on,” said a DC official.
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Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), which is mathematically in the playground race, have most of their players in India. The Caribbean duo Nicholas Pooran and Shamar Joseph, who had to go home Sunday morning, were invited to stay back.“We have most of our players here. The BCCI told us that we will have a clearer photo by Monday,” said an LSG official.Meanwhile, the CEO of Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Kasi Viswanathan, said that all their players, whether domestic or abroad, have dispersed. “All have arrived at home now,” Kasi told Timesofindia.com.“We have not yet received instructions from the BCCI. Once the official guidelines have been shared, we will contact our players,” he said.
When he was condemned to know if players abroad are eager to come back, Kasi said: “Too early to say anything. It was crazy for a few days. Wait just a few more days; I hope we all have a clearer image.”The Royals of Rajasthan, who are in ninth place, and out of discord, are convinced that their players abroad will return to finish the tournament.“We are not confronted with any problem with our contingent abroad. We are in any case outside the race for the playoffs, so I do not see that we will have a problem to assemble our team,” said a Royals official.
