The IPL is a good barometer in India: its suspension shows us how serious this is

The IPL is so closely intertwined with India’s politics that even cricket’s richest tournament could not continue at a time of crisis

It’s not often that two sets of people find themselves in the same situation on either side of one of the world’s most fractious borders.

When Friday dawned, amid swirling rumours of missiles wrecking neighbourhoods and falsehoods about pilots being captured, cricketers in India and Pakistan sensed that something was about to give.

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