Aussies are "lily-livered cowards"

What does lily-livered mean anyway?

"You use one set of rules when it comes to poor Pakistan and another when it comes to the rest where rules for doping players are concerned," he fumed.

Fixed some again!

JGK wrote:What does lily-livered mean anyway?

That you've drunk so much that you've farked your liver and begun to look like Lilly Tomlin?

This looks like a job for.....Superbunny!!!!!

That's a squirrel, not a bunny.

SG wrote:

The One wrote:while its sad for pakistan, if they thought over it with a cool head they would realise its 'governments' everywhere that are advising not to travel, not cricket boards and cricket players. besides the severity of these threats its also due to the threat to westerners in pakistan, while in india the targets seem to be indians

Instead of accepting the reality that Pak is indeed deemed as a dangerous place to tour not just by cricketers, but almost by everyone else, PCB officials are issuing statements which would flare this crisis even more.

...personally I do not believe this...I still intend to head off to Stan(McCabe)land next year.

You are a brave guy horrie, if you intend to go there despite those warnings.

embee wrote:The excuse ....

Pakistan

Dean Jones sides with PCB with regards to CA's decision to tour India and not Pak.

Here is what he has to say,

The former Test player Dean Jones has slammed Cricket Australia for what he believes is a double-standard. Jones is now the executive director of the Indian Cricket League and he said while the situations in the two countries were different, Australian officials were clearly in a bind.

"The reason why this is such a headache for Australia is that it can't afford to take a stand on player safety in India," Jones wrote in the Canberra Times. "I speak from quite a bit of experience in regards to India. My next trip will be my 91st.

"And there is reason to be concerned about security there, particularly in Dehli, where the latest bomb went off. Through my role as an executive director of the Indian Cricket League, I know we have major headaches with security there."

While Ponting is happy to tour India.

Ricky Ponting says Australia's players will be kept abreast of the security situation in India "daily, if not hourly" as they prepare to depart for their Test tour on Sunday. The trip is expected to go ahead as planned despite last Saturday's series of bomb blasts that killed more than 20 people in New Delhi, although Ponting said Cricket Australia would stay on top of any new developments.

"Anything could happen tomorrow, things change very quickly in the world right at the moment," Ponting told AAP. "Cricket Australia will continue to be in touch and the government will continue to be in touch and Cricket Australia will keep us players and the players' association in the loop on a daily, if not hourly basis."

Ponting was speaking at Parliament House in Canberra, where he was promoting Cricket Australia's new in2Cricket game for children and also met with the foreign affairs minister Stephen Smith. Ponting defended the decision to visit India but not Pakistan, where security concerns led to Australia cancelling a Test tour scheduled for earlier this year.

"As we all know and has been outlined already, these are very different circumstances between India and Pakistan right at the moment and Cricket Australia has made that very clear," Ponting said. "As captain of the side and as a player, right at the moment I am very comfortable to go on the advice of Cricket Australia and the players' association."

Michael Brown, the general manager of cricket for Cricket Australia, rejected the suggestion that Australia would only go ahead with the tour for monetary reasons or to placate the powerful BCCI. "The only reasons we can't play and participate," Brown said, "is for security reasons and we'll keep monitoring those as time goes by."

Cricket Australia has said that the government's foreign relations with Pakistan and India play a part in the decision-making process. Australia's consulates in Karachi and Lahore have been closed due to security concerns, while they remain open in India.

Actually Pakistan as of today is not listed as do not travel. Parts of it are as are parts of India.