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Pietersen explains why continuing IPL 2021 initially was a 'positive thing'
The decision to initially continue the Indian Premier League 2021 tournament despite the surge in Covid-19 cases in India led to a widespread debate. While some were of the view that the tournament should have been suspended earlier, others maintained that IPL provided a much-needed distraction to Indian citizens under lockdown. But after IPL bio-bubble was hit by the deadly virus and with several players, staff members testing positive, the IPL Governing Council and BCCI made a joint decision to suspend the tournament. Former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen, who was on commentary duties on Star Sports during the IPL, believes that continuing the tournament initially was a positive thing as it provided six hours of entertainment to the Indian public. “I definitely bought into the fact that continuing the tournament initially was a positive thing for India. The country is not in a good way but I felt that providing six hours of entertainment each day was certainly a positive thing,” Pietersen wrote in his blog on Betway. “We were doing a job for all of India, creating a show to give people some relief. I thought that the package the players were delivering was fantastic. Yes, the wickets were a little slow, certainly in Chennai, but the cricket was still very good.”
