Sena to decide on IPL issue in 2-3 days
2010-02-08 [11:00:21 hrs] | | Shiv Sena has said that it will take a final call on the issue of the Australian cricketers’ participation in the IPL in two-three days. The move comes a day after Union Minister Sharad Pawar met Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray requesting him to withdraw the threat against Australian cricketers’ participation in the high profile event.
The Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ today said that, ‘Thackeray would take a final call on the issue of Australian players in two-three days.’
Pawar had met Thackeray at the Sena chief’s ‘Matoshree’ residence in Bandra last night. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Shashank Manohar and Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray were also present at the two-hour meeting.
‘For me, the country is more important than the game,’ Saamana quoted Thackeray as telling Pawar. He further said that, ‘I will never tolerate India's insult.’
Speaking to reporters after the last night’s meeting Manohar said, ‘we told Balasaheb that the Australian team will not participate in the IPL, but each IPL team will have one or two Australians.’
‘He asked us to give a presentation on how many Australian players will play in the IPL. We will make the presentation in a day or two,’ Manohar said.
The BCCI chief further said that, ‘Thackeray and he (Uddhav) gave us a considerate hearing. We tried to convince him that only one or two Australian players will participate in the IPL matches and by not allowing all IPL matches its the state players (Marathi players) who will lose ultimately.’
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