Share As it turned out the next phase of India's vaccination policy, which will be available to over 18s from Saturday, will only extend to home players rather than those overseas cricketers who are seemingly growing increasingly wary of playing on while all around them suffer. I understand the suggestion that the IPL can provide a distraction to India's cricket-mad population in such troubling times. And I appreciate that we were all grateful to West Indies, Pakistan and Australia for coming to England last summer when Covid rates here were high. But this just seems different. Lynn's comments smacked of entitlement and a lack of awareness of the absurdity of the richest competition in cricket carrying on in a country where millions are being denied basic medical facilities that could save their lives.