Re: Bangladesh tour to Pakistan postponed after court order
From the article ""The ICC asked for a security plan from PCB. They have still not given it." If this is true, I would not blame the Bangladeshi team for not visiting.
Re: Bangladesh tour to Pakistan postponed after court order
I think this is a genuine security concern. When none of the other teams are willing to come to Pakistan, why force Bangladesh? Their lives are as valuable as Australian, English, South African, New Zealander, Indian, etc. players. The security situation hasn't improved much, and we all know what happened when one Asian team trusted our promises of "presidential level security" a few years ago. Besides, there isn't much to be achieved by such a low profile series anyway. Only two ODIs, and that too against Bangladesh. The real cricket is Test cricket anway, and Pakistani public has no desire to watch Tests, as evidenced by the nearly empty stadiums during the last two decades.
Re: Bangladesh tour to Pakistan postponed after court order
For the umpteenth time, I have no problems with Bangladesh not touring Pakistan because of security reasons.
But this flip flop drama before finally cancelling it at the last minute is just wrong
"We are coming"
"No, we are NOT coming"
"We are coming"
"No, we are NOT coming"
Yes, NO, yes, no
BCB shouldn't have made the commitment if it could not fulfil it (BD government apparently gave the go ahead for it).
It is not our fault or headache that Kamal (BCB President) did not consult everyone (incl. the courts, he should have known that there was a possibility BD courts might intervene) before confirming the tour or was doing this just to secure his ICC nomination
Re: Bangladesh tour to Pakistan postponed after court order
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We can look at the whole thing purely from a BD perspective
*Pakistan is not a safe place to tour, no foreign player will risk his life for it. This is a court decision based on legitimate public concern. BCB President greedily agreed to tour Pakistan so that he gets the ICC post, but rightfully the High court intervened and stopped it.
Re: Bangladesh tour to Pakistan postponed after court order
agreed. Remember the attack in Mumbai and the English team withdrew but came back after a few weeks with English players saying we will not let terrorists win or something to that affect. It was the money and IPL talking not standing up to the terrorists.
Re: Bangladesh tour to Pakistan postponed after court order
I am glad that Bangladesh are not coming. We need to put first our house in order and invite others later. Had a stone been thrown on their bus, it would have been like a nuke attack for international media. This series would have been like playing with fire. Thanks God it's not happening anymore.
Re: Bangladesh tour to Pakistan postponed after court order
Money sure talks
Whole thing is a farce. Instead of wasting it’s time over a useless series, PCB should focus on getting some big sponsors and backing for the PPL, the one sure way to get international stars coming to Pakistan is money.
Zaka should start working on making PPL a reality.
Re: Bangladesh tour to Pakistan postponed after court order
Why dont you try and test this hypothesis? Looking at size of Pakistani economy they can definitely do better than BPL that just happened in Bangladesh. Lets get PPL rolling and see how many of them turn up.
