Former Pakistan cricketer, Javed Miandad, feels the Indian cricketers failed the pressure test in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 and have their priorities all wrong if they are giving attention to the IPL.
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Miandad's comments, as always, are pretty much self-explanatory. Here are the excerpts:
"I just get the feeling that lame excuses are being given to protect the IPL. People are saying that players from other teams also took part in the IPL but are doing well in the World Cup. They forget that the IPL was an Indian event.
"Anyone who says that is joking because nothing can replace the intensity or pressure of representing your country.
"You compare the IPL and World Cup. They are different things. I don't think there was much at stake in the IPL for the players except maybe some extra money.
"The competition was never intense in the League but when you go and play for your national team in a World Cup the pressure and intensity of competition is different and I don't think Indian players were prepared to handle that pressure.
"I think some of them were carrying niggling injuries which they didn't disclose but those prevented them from giving their optimum for their country."
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