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Revival for Int’l cricket is still dream now…?
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April 27, 2012
To making efforts of a dream to becomes true for the revival of the international cricket in the country and make the remarkable security arrangements by the government of Pakistan for the Bangladesh cricket team but all preparations went into the waste box when Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has postponed its tour of Pakistan following a court order that set a four-week embargo on the national team's plans.

The latest twist to a long-running saga that began last December; the tour itself, comprising two limited-overs games, had been finalised last weekend to take place in Lahore at the end of April as after visited Pakistan the BCB president Mustafa Kamal announces that Bangali tigers will visit pakistan in April as well as shown no concerns over the security arrangements for the Pakistan tour.

The order came on a day when Pakistan said it had sent a 70-page security plan for the tour to the ICC and announced details of match tickets that were to have gone on sale next week. The events that followed will have added to doubts over whether the tour will indeed go ahead at all.

It is surprising to see in Asian countries that how a petition is heard at first place of a petitioner who has no direct affect on him in a particular matter in question. I have noticed that it happens quite often in Pakistan and now seen in Bangladesh. It would have been understandable if a family member of a Bangladesh cricket team player touring Pakistan would have been a petitioner as that would directly affect the petitioner.

The court order, delivered by Justices Farid Ahmed and Sheikh Hasan Arif, was in response to a writ petition filed in the same day by a university teacher and a Supreme Court lawyer who, citing concerns over security, challenged the BCB's decision to send the team at the end of April for a three-day tour.

It also said that in the interim period the sports secretary, the National Sports Council chief and BCB chief Mustafa Kamal justify the decision for the tour.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has sent the ICC a 70-page security plan of Pakistan's proposed limited-overs games against Bangladesh in Lahore, slated for later this month.

According to the plan, the visitors will be provided presidential-level security, with 2000 policemen patrolling the route from hotel to stadium, and about 1200 policemen present at the stadium while the team is at the venue. The PCB has scheduled a meeting for Friday, to be attended by the various security agencies involved in the exercise.

Azim, one of the lawyers for the petitioners, said: "The ICC asked for a security plan from PCB. They have still not given it. Pakistan is not safe for any foreign teams now. Their own media says so. For that reason, no country agrees to play there. Under the same circumstances, we should not go there also."

The petition echoes the prevailing public sentiment surrounding the tour since it was first announced. The mood against the tour - which has been called short-sighted and opportunistic, at the cost of players' safety - grew following the confirmation of dates on Sunday. The tour, of immense importance to Pakistan, is widely seen as a quid pro quo for Kamal getting the Pakistan-Bangladesh joint nomination for the ICC vice-presidency; with the latter in almost certain cold storage, the tour has become an even more complex issue. Kamal's own flip-flops on issues relating to the tour have added to the confusion.

If we see the fast steps taken the Bangladeshi court we can easy read the mindset of these persons which don’t want to see the revival the international cricket in the Pakistan as how came a random person can file a petition against a situation or someone who has no link to that matter? It is like I should start talking on behalf of Bangladesh cricket team that they should stop playing cricket? If BCB, players and Bangladesh Government had no problem then how someone random can interfere in this matter?


Amir Siddiqui and Aleem Khan to cricket lovers also criticized the decision, saying that Pakistan should not be disappointed on Bangladesh tour cancelled and should not react abruptly.

“We should try to invite big names of International cricket to take part in our Premier cricket league tournament and once these foreign teams and players satisfied with our security systems, they will spread confidence in other teams and players”, they said.

They said that PCB should resolve all matters with Indian cricket board as this is the reality that Indian cricket board is a giant in International Cricket Council (ICC) today.

Bangladesh must visit Pakistan to start playing cricket to make a good relations with Pakistan it is golden opportunity to play this is the right time Bangladesh should play with Pakistan since Bangladesh is become the tough team to beat in Asia cup they give tough time for India, Sri Lanka and only unbeaten team was Pakistan so Bangladesh got a chance to beat them in their own country.

On the other hand Dav Whatmore the Pakistan coach, has said he is "disappointed" with the postponement of Bangladesh's proposed tour of Pakistan following a court stay order. Whatmore also said that he had not faced any security issues during his two-month stay in Pakistan.

Bangladesh had agreed to visit Pakistan in the last week of this month for an ODI and a T20I, both scheduled to be played in Lahore, but the tour was delayed on April 19 with a Dhaka court ordering a four-week embargo over security concerns.

"It is a bit disappointing," Whatmore said. "We were planning to quickly get started with training, but all that has been knocked on the head with Bangladesh not coming."

Whatmore, who was born in Sri Lanka and immigrated early to Australia, coached the country of his birth to their famous 1996 World Cup triumph. "From my personal point of view, I've lived in Sri Lanka, I was born in Sri Lanka, I lived through civil war there towards the end of that problem, and I am now staying in Lahore for the last two months and move around quite freely. I really don't have any problems with security."

Whatmore said the Pakistani people were starved of international cricket, which was difficult for them given the following and history of the game in the country. "It must be really hard for the people here, but do they [the rest of the world] really know how hard it is? You need to come and witness it to really know how difficult it is for a nation that has a rich history in international cricket to keep the game going without having the ability to host overseas teams."

For Pakistan, the Bangladesh tour is more a closed chapter for the moment and the series could be scrapped from the ICC Future Tours Programme as Pakistan is unlikely to host Bangladesh at an offshore venue. The PCB is, however, focussing on launching its own lucrative Twenty20 league, and is hoping to have overseas players in it - another tactic to revive international cricket in the country. Whatmore welcomed the idea and was hopeful of its success.

"Once it is known to people in the world that the PCB is planning to do this, I'm sure there will be a lot of international cricketers looking at their schedules and see that they are available in this short period of time to come and play here. I am very hopeful that there will be some very good international cricketers coming and enjoying playing in it."

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