Collapsing Cricket dreams of a Troubled Nation

Not to be surprised, another interesting news is here. The invitation of Pak Cricket control board to play three Tests, five one-day internationals and one Twenty20 game in a series proposed for October has been turned down by Sri Lanka Cricket authorities. The troubled nation’s cricket dreams are really struggling. 

Perhaps the Sri Lankan board would have given his consent for the proposed tournament, but the recent attack on Pak Naval base shut down all the chances. Where the defense forces and their equipments are not safe, even the utter fools in the world would never get ready to be the guest of that death zone.

Everybody would agree with me that perhaps it was the almighty, who rescued the Lankan team from that certain death circumstances on March 2009. After the attack, the only foreign team is Afghanistan, which has dared to play a tournament in Pak. As the Afghan team is a second level team in world cricket, it will make no difference to other team’s convictions about the risks in playing cricket there. The ongoing peace talks between India & Pak would have resulted in convincing BCCI to send his team to Pak. But, the death of Bin Laden and the upshots have ruined those plans already. 


Not only the security concerns, but also the allegations of match fixing and the involvement of leading players in those cases have created distrust for them all over the world. I am sure that at present no teams in the world are willing to see Pakistan team against them in the gentleman’s game. So, it’s the time for Pak democrats and players to take necessary steps to keep cricket alive in Pak before it’s too late.