DSport Cut Ties With PSL After Pulwama Attack: Report

In the wake of the Pulwama terrorist attack on CRPF personnel, DSport has snapped its ties with the Pakistan Super League.  The Indian television channel, which was launched by Discovery Networks Asia Pacific in 2017, was slated to broadcast all the games of the ongoing Pakistan Super League in India.

India was rocked by a gruesome heinous terrorist attack on Thursday.  In one of the deadliest terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir’s three decades of militancy, a suicide bomber from the Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a CRPF bus in Pulwama district, killing at least 40 personnel and leaving many critically wounded.

The bus was on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Lethpora town, about 30 km from Srinagar when the attack took place. The entire nation is in a state of shock as well as furious following the gruesome attack. The whole of India is condemning the attack and paying tribute to the fallen brave souls. The cricketing fratnerity has also come forward to pay tribute to the martyrs. The likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Gautam Gambhir and others have expressed their grief over the inhumane incident.

And DSport has now shown the way forward by cutting ties with Pakistan Cricket Board. According to media reports in Pakistan, the broadcasters have stopped showing the PSL games in India as a protest to Pulwama attack.

Reports are suggesting that DSports who were broadcasting the Pakistan Super League in India have stopped the broadcast as a protest against the Pulwama attack #PSL4

— Saj Sadiq (@SajSadiqCricket) February 16, 2019

The bilateral tension between the two neighbours, nonetheless, is bound to increase after the latest attack. Consequently, any hopes of seeing the two countries resuming their rivalry on the cricket field also looks bleak now.

India have not played a full bilateral Test series against Pakistan since 2007 when the latter visited India for three Tests and five One-Day Internationals. They played a short series of three ODIs and two T20s in India in December 2012, but otherwise, both have faced each other only in the ICC organised events or the Asia Cup.  The BCCI has also not kept Pakistan in its Future Tour Programmed for 2019-2023 cycles, snubbing the neighbouring country amongst its six proposed opponents for the World Test Championship beginning in 2019.