Michael Vaughan Says England Players Should Play In IPL

Former England Captain Michael Vaughan says the England players picked for the Indian Premier League should go to the competition.

Questions have been raised over player safety at the tournament following the Lahore attacks.

Indian Premier League organizers have submitted revised security plans proposing the use of local police rather than national paramilitaries, in a bid to avoid delaying this year's tournament.

Indian lawmakers had been concerned about security forces being overstretched because the IPL will be held at the same time as national elections, and a delay of the tournament had been proposed by some.

However the IPL has told the Home Ministry that it does not require national paramilitary forces and has proposed some shifts in match schedules to accommodate security required for elections, while not delaying the tournament as a whole.

Raman Srivastava, special secretary of internal security in the Home Ministry, said Thursday that IPL organizers had offered a revised match schedule which avoided clashes.

The IPL starts on Friday April 10th and runs to Friday 29th May.