ICC Women's World Cup: Pakistan women’s team staying in stadium clubhouse

[nikhil25]

re: ICC Women’s World Cup: Pakistan women’s team staying in stadium clubhouse

@Ali_Syed

Ok sorry for my original post!

Thank you India for your generosity for providing accommodation to the team in the Stadium. And yes its pretty normal for the hotels in country’s to refuse accommodation to visitors due to the pressure of some bigots.

i didn’t say it was generous. i said it’s strange that many of you seem to be invested in pretending that the team was forced to sleep in a tent on the pitch. this manipulation is unnecessary.

@Ali_Syed

Discrimination against cricketers – The Express Tribune

International teams have refused to visit Pakistan over justified security fears. It seems, however, that if we simply put international teams at clubhouses in stadiums and refuse to let them go anywhere else, the security problem would apparently be solved. No country, of course, would accept such conditions to play cricket in Pakistan. Yet, our women cricketers are expected to put up with this in India. Additionally, the final of the tournament is supposed to be held in Mumbai. India needs to explain how our cricketers will be able to stay in Mumbai in the current climate if we reach the final.

how insane must one be to compare the security situations of international teams playing cricket in india and pakistan.

“security concerns” in india means shiv sena threatening to “disrupt matches” in mumbai and some similar losers “protesting at the airport” in orissa (not randomly but directly in response to an indo-pak military altercation, by the way). this is a joke - there is no threat to the safety of the players. “security concerns” in pakistan means suicide bombers and teams of heavily-armed jihadi terrorists launching a military style assault on players.

let us not equate the two just to project a sense of parity. it’s just silly. in india the threat is troublemakers. in pakistan the threat is trained killers.

@Umer

Let’s just hypothetically accept your point as valid:

What caused that “last minute change of cities”? Is that acceptible behaviour for a country hosting a World Cup?

some shiv sena guys threatened to disrupt matches in protest over the alleged beheading of an indian soldier in kashmir. the powers that be apparently decided to avoid any controversy and just change the city. of course such things should not happen in countries hosting a world cup but we are talking of south asia and a hostile bilateral environment. further we are talking of the women’s world cup that nobody cares about and was probably planned in 5 minutes.

there are two fundamentally ridiculous ideas being put forth:1) the team was forced to sleep in a stadium and was thus “humiliated”, and 2) there are grave “security concerns” which resulted in the team being holed up and unable to leave. both are patently false.