Black Caps tour of Pakistan
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@donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:
A couple of interesting Tweets:
Edit, similar to what's on the Cricinfo match feed:
This is from the PCB: "Earlier today, the New Zealand cricket board informed us that they had been alerted to some security alert and have unilaterally decided to postpone the series.
"PCB and Govt of Pakistan made fool proof security arrangements for all visiting teams. We have assured the New Zealand cricket board of the same. The Prime Minister spoke personally to the Prime Minister of New Zealand and informed her that we have one of the best Intelligence systems in the world and that no security threat of any kind exists for the visting team.
"The security officials with the NZ team have been satisfied with security arrangements made by the Govt of Pakistan throughout their stay here. PCB is willing to continue the scheduled matches. However, cricket lovers in Pakistan and world over will be disappointed by this last minute withdrawal."
Yeah that doesn't ring particularly true
Edit: i mean the bolded bit in the last spoiler
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What the hell were they doing in Pakistan anyway? It's just a hotbed of Islamic terrorism, you couldn't pay me enough to go there as an unknown tourist let alone a high profile athlete.
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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?
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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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