Wrap-up: It’s not cricket

The first IPL match ‘was played in Mumbai on April 9, and the Wankhede Stadium got 22,000 million litres of water as scheduled from the Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation.

A division bench of Justice V.M. Kanade and Justice M.S. Karnik had earlier refused to stay the match while hearing a PIL filed by two Hyderabad NGOs, Loksatta Movement and Foundation of Demo-cratic Reforms, seeking to shift the IPL matches out of Maharashtra in view of the acute shortage of water and an expected huge amount of water to be wasted during the matches.