Cricket - The Gentleman’s Game

It is known that after the terror attacks on Mumbai, the England team has called off the on going one-day series and has returned to their home country. However, the England Cricket Board has assured that their team will return to India to play the Test series to be held in the month of December. The ECB has said that its players will be back to India once things return to normal in India. However, the English players have decided otherwise.

An English daily has reported that Flintoff and Harmison from the England team might not return to India for the test series and that they cited their family as the reason for not willing to play in India. These two players are considered a threat to India on Indian pitches and their absence would worsen the situation for England which was already miserably defeated by India in the one dayers.

The two players said that this is their personal decision and that they wouldn’t try to influence the other players in the team and stop them from touring India. To be noted that the English media did not support the decision of these players. The media felt that pulling off the team might give a sense of victory to the terrorists who attacked India.

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