Cricket - The Gentleman’s Game

A few teams like New Zealand and England have already canceled their trips to the Pakistan as they found that the security situation in that country is too critical. The sudden cancellation of the tours has put Pakistan Cricket Board in a crisis and a few weeks ago Indian Government also decided that it will not send its players to Pakistan.

However, Pakistan successfully convinced the Board of Cricket Control in India that they can provide adequate security to the players and made BCCI agree to let the tour go as scheduled in the early next year. BCCI has announced that Indian team will be touring Pakistan and there was also a meeting arranged in India in the month of December with Indian players regarding the security in this tour.

This time it was the players who expressed their unwillingness to tour Pakistan. All the senior players of Indian team (Sachin, Dravid, Sehwag and Dhoni) have openly expressed that they are not willing the play with Pakistan in their country as they feel that the security threat is too high. This comes in the wake of the Pakistan External Affairs Ministry skeptical about the security threats to Indian players, in spite of PCB’s complete assurance. With all the top players against Pakistan, it is almost confirmed that the tour will be canceled. So, yet another canceled tour in Pakistan.

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