The IPL is back with unfinished business, and it was always going to be

The death toll was horrifying, climbing up to an official count of 4,000 people a day in mid-May – official figures that were widely disputed. By the end of June, the official Covid death count was 400,000, but a study by the Centre for Global Development estimates that the number of excess deaths in India between January 2020 and June 2021 was between 3m and 4.7m. Not all, but the majority of those deaths are believed to have been from Covid.