Modi underplays Thackeray threat to Australian players

Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner Lalit Modi underplayed the threat by the Shiv Sena towards Australian players during the staging of the tournament. Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, writing in an editorial in the Sena's mouthpiece 'Saamna' on January 13, called for a ban of the Australian cricket team playing in Maharashtra. Thackeray's comments followed violence against Indians in Australia. There are obvious threats from last so many years, by many people, you can continue to write about threats, I mean that's it. We have to take precautions that we need to take and we are taking precautions that we need to take, Modi said. The second edition of IPL last year was shifted to South Africa due to security reasons and now again it seems that security threat would force IPL to forward to some other country.