**MCC mull Afghanistan tour, official to visit Kabul
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LONDON: Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) are contemplating a tour of Afghanistan, the club’s president said on Wednesday, indicating that a visit to the war-torn nation was more likely than a trip to neighbouring Pakistan.
“I am going to Afghanistan to look at Kabul and the cricket pitches we have put in,” MCC president Phillip Hodson told BBC radio’s Test Match Special programme on Wednesday. “Then I will go to Lahore as a private citizen.
**“I think there is much more chance of taking a team to Afghanistan than there is to Pakistan. **I think we could do something in Afghanistan and I don’t think it will be long away.”
This month Afghanistan again qualified for the 2012 World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka, having competed in the 2010 edition in the West Indies.
I won’t be surprised if national cricket team players are strip-searched before every match and opposition teams are accompanied by anti-terror commandos. While we sobbingly beg to teams like Bangladesh to please grace our country with their visit, one nation after another unambiguously screams at us that we are a sporting leper.
