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Australia not to tour Pakistan |
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Australia has officially announced that their
team will not be touring Pakistan owing to the
volatile situation in the country. Australia was
supposed to tour Pakistan sometime in March but
with plenty of terrorist incidents happening
there in a short span has made them very
apprehensive about the safety.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has been put
in a financial crisis with this tour getting
called off. Pakistan had only a weak Zimbabwean
team to host recently and it is likely that will
have to settle with a series against Bangladesh.
PCB’s hopes of having a One Day Series against
arch-rivals India died after the BCCI rejected
their offer because of an already packed
schedule for their team.
Cricket Australia has mentioned that the tour
is only postponed and not cancelled. The
Australian Board is looking for a possible tour
in 2009 or 2010. Ironically, Australia hasn’t
toured Pakistan since way back in 1998! One of
their Test series had to be held in Sharjah
which was supposed to be Pakistan’s home series!
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