Shilpa Shetty Says She Doesn’t Own An Explanation To Pak Players

Posted by admin on Jan 23rd, 2010 | 0 comments

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, who is a co-owner of Rajasthan Royals Indian Premier League (IPL) team, explained in no uncertain terms that the IPL team owners do not need to furnish any explanation as to why they have dropped Pakistani players from auction for the third season of the Twenty20 matches.

Shilpa along with Preity Zinta, co-owner of Kings XI Punjab team, IPL chief Lalit Modi and representative of other franchises were addressing a press conference here after a tie-up between IPL and Network 18’s entertainment channel Colors for post match coverage

“We don’t owe an explanation on our decision on Pakistani players. The reasons for dropping are understandable in the current scenario. We would like the media and the people to react to such situations more sensibly,” Shilpa told reporters. She also added that the franchisees couldn’t ensure the security of the Pakistan players and hence they decided against bidding for them. “We wanted the players to be in the country and at that point of time we were more worried about security. We did not want to take onus for their security,” she said.

Preity Zinta too added that the matter of dropping Pakistani players has been sensationalized. “. We request the country to collectively handle the situation sensibly,” said Preity. Modi too reiterated that there was no conspiracy against Pakistani players.