Indian Premier League and Cricket News by IPL Cricket Forum

BCCI President Sharad Pawar said the multi-billion dollar Twenty20 event will go ahead as scheduled and the blasts in Jaipur will not affect the Indian Premier League in any way.

“The IPL will go ahead as scheduled. The next match in Jaipur (May 17) will also be held as scheduled. I have talked to the Rajasthan Chief Minister (Vasundhara Raje) and asked her to beef up security there. There will be enhanced security in other venues too,” the BCCI chief told reporters here on wednesday.

Pawar shot down any notion that the foreign players taking part in the IPL had any apprehension about their safety.

“No one has any apprehension. These things happen everywhere. It (bomb blasts) has happened even in London,” he said.

Meanwhile Shane Warne, the captain-coach of the ladder-leading Rajasthan Royals, is extremely shaken up by the terrorist attack in the team’s base city of Jaipur and held an emergency meeting last night with team owners, fellow players Graeme Smith and Shane Watson, and team manager Darren Berry.

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