So the Sri Lankan Cricket board has refused to toe the line. They will be calling back their players after all. The Indian Premier League will be left without the Sri Lankan cricketers and that will give the players some food for thought.

For example, the Deccan Chargers and the Kochi Tuskers will be left without their captains. Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakakara lead the teams in the IPL and will need to be packed off now.

Similarly, T Dilshan will leave for the practice given that he is the captain of the side, which means that the Bangalore team will be affected. Thankfully, the side has brought in Chris Gayle as a replacement.

Mumbai Indians will be left without Lasith Malinga, a huge blow to them by any streatch of imagination.

What is interesting to see how the BCCI reacts to this. Frankly because there was an unwritten, oral commitment that the Lankan board would have given the BCCI and that has been called off.

The question is, what happened?