Cricket Australia has refused to send its team to Pakistan, according to a news published in Daily Jang, Nasim Ashraf and O’Connor met in Dubai and the Aussie chief has expressed his concerns relating to security issues and has proposed to play on a neutral venue, the Aussie chief citing a severe resistance from the players union has expressed CA’s unability to send its team to Pakistan.
PCB chief Nasim Ashraf while refusing to play at a neutral venue also stated that SA, Zimbabwe, Aus A team and Aus U-19 team have made successful visits to Pakistan in recent months without any security concerns, he also pointed out that the last time Australia visited Pakistan was in 1998 almost 10 years ago and Pakistani cricket fans will be deprived from cricket.
Mr. Nasim Ashraf also explained the extreme security measures, PCB has been planning for the security of Aussie players.
Although no final decision has been taken so far as the Aussie’s want to wait and observe the security situation after the general elections in Pakistan.But from the initial discussions it appears that CA is all set not to send its team to Pakistan and have already made up their mind in this respect.
PCB should not budge from its position and should impose counter sanctions on CA, Pakistan team should not play Australia on any ground until they compensate Pakistan for the losses and tour Pakistan.
Kasim Sahib:
That coach was one of the lousiest bowler produced by Australia,
and PCB should learn from BCCI they are persisting with youth regardless of the consequences and are already reaping the benefits.
It is a shame that Pakistan can not come up with a couple of fast bowlers with so many talents being wasted and going down the drain because of favoritism. Aaqib Javed and Mudassar Nazar, two of the finest cricketers produced by Pakistan have been running the NCA and turning out some promising fast bowlers but the establishment are not willing to hire Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, one of the greates fast bowling pair in the history to polish and fine tune the product. And horror upon horror, that stupid coach, being a fast bowler himself is indulging himself in politics and taking positives from every defeat and by the time his contract expires, Pakistan will have a bucket full of positives and mediocre medium-pacers but not a single fast and match winning bowler. How long will we be crying and moaning about Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul and Mohammed Asif? IMO, Shoaib Akhtar, has been a curse on Pakistan cricket.
Even though India could not gain a bonus point today, they gained a couple of good young players. All the four main bowlers used by India today really did their job well and Ishant is proving to be the find of the tour. India were in a spot of bother as the batting collapsed for the third time in 3 matches but R.Sharma and Dhoni batted well together. Rohit, who will probably be a replacement for Dravid batted well under pressure. What really impressed me about him was his running between the wickets. Let’s see how he performs in future matches. But Yuvi’s form is a huge concern and hopefully he will get into form against SL, which will again be a tight match.
Run rate is not a problem if Sachin and Sehwag bat sensibly during the first 10 overs the match belongs to India no need for any heroics.Earlier India did well to restrict Australia to 159 all out in 43.1 overs Ishaant took 4/38 and Sreesanth too 3/31
they both bowled well.
It seems that Australia might not be able to bat the 50 overs,it will be a rare instance for them full marks to the Indian Seamers who bowled aggressively and Dhoni who kept on attacking and gave full support to his seamers, Australia have survived so many embarrassing collapses due to their rock solid lower middle order in the recent past but this time except for hussey nobdy could stay on the wicket for too long and Australia kept on losing wickets, Young Ishaant is turning out to be a star.
If the tour is scrapped because of suicide bombings then it will be a huge victory for the terrorists and a huge failure for those who have declared the war on terror,IMO most of these bombings are politically motivated and targeted. The timing of this tour is unfortunate PCB instead of scrapping the tour or transferring it,in the worst case scenario should talk about postponing it as I dont think that the turmoil will subside after elections in fact it might explode even further and CA is only looking for an excuse to call it off.
I think if the elections are hold peacefully then the tour might happen,I dont think that the Australian board will allow its players to play in IPL or ICL as it will directly affect Australia’s domestic cricket.
The tour has not been called off completely,CA is going to send a fact finding mission to Pakistan and the report of the commission will determine whether they are going to play or not,
its up to PCB whether they call them before elections or after elections.
Another factor is the venues the major centers may not pass the security test as they are the hot spots for political turmoil,
but smaller centers as Hyderabad,Faisalbad and sialkot and Multan might pass as they are away from the hotspots.
I like the new look, it is easy on the eyes,Australia is not going to tour Pakistan they did not tour Pakistan in far better conditions then why they will do it now.
India is killing Australia in Melbourne, it is 100/6 one more wicket and it will be hard for Australia to recover.
Australians by making a big issue about security and by declaring themselves as targets are attracting the terror groups toward themselves and making themselves as an attractive target for such groups, sports and politics should remain separate.
Thanks, Samy for the compliment. And I too like the new outlook of the site. Keep it up Wasim.
Long time reader. First time poster of a comment.
This look and feel of the site is good.
I don’t like this background and would prefer the previous one . I am extremely fustrated that Australia are unlikely to tour Pakistan . Cricket Australia should be ashemaed about there participation and commmitment to touring Pakistan for the secound time in the last ten . Even though Nashim Ashraff guaranteeed tight security arrangments to CA , there refusal to tour canbe described as “wimps”.
I hope The Icc will sue cricket Australia for not touring . I want points to be reduced from the icc rankings and table and the series awarded to pakistan.
I don’t think the Aussies really want to tour Pakistan… they seem to be more interested in earning money in the IPL. PCB should cancel the tour if Aus refuse to come to Pakistan. A neutral venue won’t attract too many fans.
And Mr.Kasim, good comment sir.
I wrote a sarcastic comment on BBC’s 606 on this subject but they did not post it. Here it is:
#1. PCB should assure CA that no bowler will be selected who bowls over 80 Mph.
#2. Kamran Akmal will be retained as wicket-keeper and he will continue to spill catches.
#3. Danish Kaneria will be selected with a promise that he will concede at least 200 runs in every innings, if second innings is required!
#4. At least three Pakistani batsmen will ran themselves out to hold aloft the great tradition of their ex-captain.
#5. Steve Bucknor will be appointed as a neutral umpire while Darrell Hair will be “Home” umpire.
What else security the Aussies want?