India, March 23 -- Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar urged the Indian Premier League (IPL) team owners to be stricter and take action against overseas players who turn up late to the tournament at the last minute. The IPL 2026 edition is slated to begin on March 28, and some teams don't know whentheir biggest overseas stars will arrive in India. Cricket Australia have already announced that the pace trio of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins will miss the early stages of the tournament due to workload management.

Both Hazlewood and Cummins have been injured for months. The former missed the entire Ashes and the T20 World Cup, while the Australia Test and ODI captain played just one match against England and missed the T20 W...