Black Caps tour of Pakistan
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Ironically, our next scheduled fixture is vs Pakistan in our first T20 World Cup game in ~7 weeks.
Not sure what they'll do with the players - is there anything else that could be arranged at short notice?
Maybe take Pakistan to UAE? -
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It’s incredible that a cluster fuck of a country like Pakistan has produced as many genuine greats of the game as it has. Good grief, what a fiasco. This thread plays it all out nicely ( game about to start, less than an hour later everything called off )
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@taniwharugby don’t start me on MIQ priority….
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@donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:
I wonder what changed on the morning of the game.
Pakistani fans are quite unhappy on social media about it all...
Going to declare jihad?
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Does forfeiture of the games by default now mean they count toward the rankings as the lack of DRS had no bearing on their "creative home umpires" down to adjudicate so is now no longer a valid reason for them not the count. Can't recall what happened with the Test Championship points allocations when the Aussies declined to tour South Africa but if you don't turn up they should be awarded to the opposition. Still Covid19 did have a bearing on that situation.
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@higgins said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:
Does forfeiture of the games by default now mean they count toward the rankings as the lack of DRS had no bearing on their "creative home umpires" down to adjudicate so is now no longer a valid reason for them not the count. Can't recall what happened with the Test Championship points allocations when the Aussies declined to tour South Africa but if you don't turn up they should be awarded to the opposition. Still Covid19 did have a bearing on that situation.
Yeah aussie didn't get any points, but don't think they were awarded to SA either. I know the England board was considering trying claim forfeiture for the last game against India.
Anyway ODI's weren't actually part of the ODI championship:
So they only thing on the line was standard ranking points.
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Celebrities react with shock and anger at New Zealand abruptly backing out of Pakistan tour
Asim Azhar, Zarnish Khan and others slam New Zealand's last-minute decision and console disappointed cricket fans.
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@Bones perhaps they should be more taken aback by the rampant Islamic extremism in the country that means you have to take all threats (like this bomb threat) seriously.
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Fuck Pakistan. backwards shithole bordering on a failed state. Why in the fuck would anyone go there?
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@mn5 said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:
All the cricket pages I follow on FB are predictably full of rampant Pakistan fans slamming the “cowardly” Black Caps and extolling the virtues of their “amazing, beautiful, safe” country.
….and I thought Indian fans were bad.
Yep, all sorts of vile rubbish was being posted on the White Ferns social media updates during their ODI last night.
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A real shame all round.
The intelligence NZ received could be anywhere on the scale from good to bad, correct to outright wrong.
But a civilian PM advising a civilian cricket administrator on the placement of civilian sportsmen, for just a game (admittedly also it involves money) - it can only end one way, on the side of precaution.
Individual players who want to play in PSL etc can make their own risk decisions. But in this case David White has to take responsibility for other peoples safety.
A google search tells me that their were warnings for the Sri Lanka tour in 2009 that were ignored.
I don't know what the answer is going forward.
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@donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:
@mn5 said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:
All the cricket pages I follow on FB are predictably full of rampant Pakistan fans slamming the “cowardly” Black Caps and extolling the virtues of their “amazing, beautiful, safe” country.
….and I thought Indian fans were bad.
Yep, all sorts of vile rubbish was being posted on the White Ferns social media updates during their ODI last night.
As a cricket fan it is annoying if a game can’t go ahead, but that pales into insignificance compared to player welfare and safety. As @No-Quarter says it’s potentially dangerous enough for Joe Bloggs let alone high profile sportsmen who’s every move can be tracked pretty easily via schedules on line. To hell with all of that shit.
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@bovidae said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:
Now that the players have left Pakistan NZC will need to say what the "specific, credible security threat" was. Pakistan probably won't tour NZ in a while, and they have been one of the regular visitors.
No they don’t, you don’t expose intelligence assets and info like that. Certainly not for something like making NZC look a bit better
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@bovidae said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:
Now that the players have left Pakistan NZC will need to say what the "specific, credible security threat" was. Pakistan probably won't tour NZ in a while, and they have been one of the regular visitors.
I would have thought Pakistan would need to explain why their intel service won't miss like they did in 2002 and 2009.
Pakistan IMO seriously are shooting themselves in the foot here, NZ didn't start the tour to pull out. After the vitriol it is difficult to see anyone giving the "benefit of the doubt" to touring Pakistan for a long while.
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@machpants said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:
@bovidae said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:
Now that the players have left Pakistan NZC will need to say what the "specific, credible security threat" was. Pakistan probably won't tour NZ in a while, and they have been one of the regular visitors.
No they don’t, you don’t expose intelligence assets and info like that. Certainly not for something like making NZC look a bit better
Same security firm the English team use, apparently.
Things are changing fast over there, though. They border Afghanistan, and that place has changed massively and quickly
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