Snake threats, shoe-throwing force IPL team out of Chennai

• Sarwar Alam
• 12 April, 2018

By: Sarwar Alam

Protest-hit Chennai Super Kings were on Thursday (12) ordered to play all their remaining Indian Premier League (IPL) home games 1,200 kilometres away in Pune after players had shoes thrown at them and were threatened with snakes being unleashed into their stadium. Demonstrations marred Chennai’s winning return to the IPL after a two-year ban for corruption on Tuesday night, against Kolkata Knight Riders, and when a threat to unleash snakes followed it prompted the officials to act. Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu state, which has seen volatile protests over the handling of a water-shortage crisis with the authorities…

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