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 Australia, New Zealand want to help out Pakistan cricket
16th Aug 2008 20:00 IST
Agencies
The cricket boards of Australia and New Zealand have said they were keen to support and help out Pakistan cricket but not at the cost of sending their teams to play in conditions, which are deemed unsafe and unstable by security and intelligence agencies.
Cricket Australia spokesman Peter Young and New Zealand Players Association Chief Executive Heath Mills agreed that the world cricket needed Pakistan to be strong.
"We want to support the PCB particularly. World cricket needs Pakistan cricket to be strong so we need to support them. But at the moment, only on this point of time with a lot of happening in Pakistan, we have a lot of concerns," Mills told Geo News.
"Who knows that somewhere in the future, very soon, those concerns won't be there and we would be able to tour Pakistan as we did in 2002 and 2003. Ultimately, it's the ICC's and the Board's decision to make what they want to do. We'll have to wait and see what reports does the task force give back to the ICC next week," he said.
On a smooth New Zealand tour of Pakistan in 2003, Mills said it was quite a different situation besides now there would not be just one but eight teams to be provided security to.
"Things were quite stable in the country at that point, it's different now as it appears there is a lot of instability within Pakistan with the Taliban, the government things were not bad in 2003." |
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