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

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 May, 2025

    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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