View: It’s important IPL be played this year — even in faraway UAE
By Joy Bhattacharjya2020 is the wrong year. That may be the commonest statement this blighted year. But with regards to the Indian Premier League (IPL), it’s actuallythe wrong year. Or, at any rate, the year in which trouble was least expected. Let me explain. Every five years, IPL has to compete with a general election. And, over the years, that has been the single-largest disruption to its schedule.In 2009, it was moved to South Africa just 16