God help me - the Test Cricket thread

[ElwoodBlues1]

Nice article;

IPL shambles a result of putting greed above common sense.
This is what hubris looks like.

Spells it out in fairly plain terms. Fundamentally, India is a overpopulated country that socially and politically values human life very very lowly, and the lives of foreigners even less so!

The author probably won't get much argument from myself or others that have travelled there.

As for Slater's claim he had Federal Permission to work in the IPL, true, but the Feds didn't send him there and giving him permission to pursue his employment doesn't obfuscate his own responsibility in that decision chain! Claiming the Federal Government is now neglecting him is a big stretch, I dare say they actually probably warned him not to go if it can at all be avoided!

btw., As I understand it, for the Internationals, the IPL is no play no pay! The only players involved with guaranteed payments are BCCI contracted players.

I watched the nine late news last night and they had a insight into the plight of the Indian public Hospital system and confronting stuff it was to watch. A mother surrounded by her kids in a hospital bed with no staff in sight and them trying to perform untrained CPR on her. A Doctor then casually walks in and very matter of fact checks her pulse and says dont bother anymore she is dead.
The Hospital was just jam packed with similar cases, no proper PPE gear, no oxygen and hardly any staff which given the circumstances isnt hard to fathom given the risks to their health.
The Directors of the hospital were at a clinic next door getting their CoVid jab and denying their was an issue, one Doctor was told what to say by a Director and just gave a heap of spin as a response.
Life is cheap in India but CoVid has made it a lot cheaper and its every man and women for themselves if you are the rank and file working class....