The IPL should have halted the competition earlier or made alternative plans but their timing was badly amiss
It’s better to leave people asking why you have stopped something rather than what took you so long. This is the rule of thumb applied to people retiring from public life, sports people mainly but occasionally politicians, singers, actors and others similarly in the limelight.
Timing is everything. And the Indian Premier League, which was suspended for the season on Tuesday, comprehensively failed on this count.
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