Sri Lankan skipper Dilshan has welcomed the decision of his board not to travel Pakistan for upcoming due tour. He said, “The last time it was a bad experience for me as a cricketer in Pakistan. As a player, I do not want to face the same situation again in future. My personal view is that I don’t want to play cricket in Pakistan again”.
Pakistan cricket’s fans are not happy on the statement of Dilshan on an open forum. Tauqeer Zia the former PCB Chairman said that Dilshan’s comments are insensitive to the problems being faced by the Pakistani people. I don’t think there was a need for such personal views on a public forum once Sri Lankan board had turned down our invitation.
Infact in past Pakistani team had visited so many times Sri Lanka (in worst security situation of Sri Lanka) in response to avoiding tour of Sri Lanka by some Western countries. In response to this positive attitude Sri Lankan team had also visited Pakistan when Western and Indian team avoided to visit Pakistan, but unfortunately Government of Pakistan failed to provide them security and they were attacked by militant. After that accident no wise person can expect Sri Lankan tour in the prevailed worst security situation of Pakistan.
The question is why the PCB is making things confusing? The plan has to be straight forward and i.e. no international matches in Pakistan till the end of war against terror. So, PCB should not stress any team to visit Pakistan as it is impossible in the current situation. Therefore PCB should adopt the plan of neutral venue otherwise the current unwise attitude of PCB will provide chances to IPL players like Dilshan (who have already faced match fixing allegations from his former captain Kumar Sangakkara) to speak harshly against Pakistan.
“The last time it was a bad experience for me as a cricketer in Pakistan. As a player, I do not want to face the same situation again in future. My personal view is that I don’t want to play cricket in Pakistan again”.
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