PCB official doesn't think India will come

I guess once its closest neighbour reneges on promises to tour, it means Pakistan will truly be ostracised and forced to play all its fixtures away or in neutral venues such as Dubai. Home ground advantage seems to have been lost for the foreseeable future.

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=6&click_id=17&art_id=nw20080926095034651C351797

No room for Pak tours when there is IPL to play!!

Pakistan are about to become a touring side only - bit like the British Lions rugby team. Terrible shame - hopefully when the current turmoil calms down a bit some of the big cricket nations will find some guts. Sadly I don't expect England to be at the front of that pack.

JKLever wrote:No room for Pak tours when there is IPL to play!!

2nd edition of IPL will be played 3 months after proposed Pak tour.

Oh dear...

PCB officials should find the BCCI's clitoris. Or G-spot.

Zat wrote:PCB officials should find the BCCI's clitoris. Or G-spot.

The G-spot has been renamed IPL.

THICKEDGE wrote:Pakistan are about to become a touring side only - bit like the British Lions rugby team. Terrible shame - hopefully when the current turmoil calms down a bit some of the big cricket nations will find some guts. Sadly I don't expect England to be at the front of that pack.

And rightly so. Can you blame them?

And what's "sadly" about it FFS?
The guys are all family men.
The locations being targeted are international 5 star hotels where they'd be staying....
The threats to air travel in and out of Pakistan are real ...
The indiscriminate explosions ...

No doubting it's a shame for both the Pakistani players and the PCB (bloody hell, I am getting soft now) but
that's life. If their cities are being blown up - they must expect foreign teams to refuse to play there.

THICKEDGE wrote:Pakistan are about to become a touring side only - bit like the British Lions rugby team. Terrible shame - hopefully when the current turmoil calms down a bit some of the big cricket nations will find some guts. Sadly I don't expect England to be at the front of that pack.

At least England have toured Pak in 2001 & 2006...

JKLever wrote:

THICKEDGE wrote:Pakistan are about to become a touring side only - bit like the British Lions rugby team. Terrible shame - hopefully when the current turmoil calms down a bit some of the big cricket nations will find some guts. Sadly I don't expect England to be at the front of that pack.

At least England have toured Pak in 2001 & 2006...

Racist..

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JKLever wrote:

At least England have toured Pak in 2001 & 2006...

Racist..

Chavs (even those oop Norf'), who generally support the chaviest team around generally are spang!

i cant see india going unless the situation improves tremendously. a one-ton bomb hits the most heavily guarded piece of land in the country, just a few hundred metres from the pm, the president and the army chief. the players cant be too safe