http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 hasted in inviting International Teams to tour the country
Former president of the International Cricket Council, Ehsan Mani, feels that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) made a hasty decision to invited foreign teams to play in the terror hit country.
Speaking in the light of the recent rejection by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 Cricket to tour Pakistan, Mani said, “The ground reality is no international team will tour Pakistan as things stand in the country. The PCB should’ve switched to Plan B and arranged a neutral venue.”
Criticizing the logic behind inviting teams when clearly the law and order situation in the country is not getting any better, he said, “They should come out of the exercise of convincing teams to tour Pakistan for a while because the refusal is a disgrace
to the PCB.”
Since 2009, after the terrorist attacks on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, no foreign team has agreed to visit the country. In the attack seven Lankans were injured while eight Pakistanis lost their lives.
The tour was immediately called off and the tourists were flown back to their country. Pakistan’s law enforcement agencies failed to capture any terrorist from the crime scene. However, later a suspected accomplice was arrested who revealed that the terrorist
group Lashkar-i-Tyaba was behind the attacks.
The fiasco also caused the International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.
It has been extremely difficult for the PCB to convince other teams to come to the country and consequently there was no other option for the country to play home series in a neutral ground.
Pakistan has used England and the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128, increased the efforts to bring back cricket in the country, but it seems like his efforts are heading nowhere because Sri Lanka, which was expected
to tour Pakistan, has now declined to oblige the PCB, causing an embarrassment for Butt and the officials of the PCB.
The recent rejection by Sri Lanka is a testament to the fact that it is too early for other nations to feel safe enough to send their cricket teams to play against the men in green.
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