Geoff Lawson, former ordinary coach of a bunch of teams, says England pulling themselves out of India smells of hypocrisy.
That isn’t true, it smells of poo stained undergarments.
But i digress, Lawson believes it is a double standard that the Ashes went on in 2005 after the bombs on the trains, and they left this time.
I have used a similar argument before, only for Australia, and i was right.
Australia wouldn’t tour Pakistan, even though they were not the targets.
England left India because people with guns were cutting down Whities.
See the Difference Geoff, its tiny, but its there.
Lawson is not way off the mark here, Terrorism happens everywhere, and as far as i know the only terrorist action ever aimed at cricket directly was at the MCG, and i think it was for a footy game anyway.
But this was different than normal terrorist actions.
Bombs are indiscriminate, they are the lazy way, ot the populist way of getting rid of people.
This was people going from hotel to hotel with guns looking for whities, Poms & Yanks especially, to kill.
The English cricket team stay in hotels.
All cricket teams stay in hotels in India.
Not all teams go in the tube.
The chances of a player being caught in the tube, mid tour, during a terrorist attack, is less than Natalie Portman doing a strip tease act with a cricket bat as a prop for my 30th birthday.
Or at least the same.
So that is the difference, that is why England went home instead of playing 2 useless one dayers.
That is why Harmy doesn’t want to tour.
The players are scared, because their nationality, at a hotel they stayed at was targeted.
Terrorism scares them, but indiscriminate bombs in public areas they can live with, they might not like them, but they can live with them, because they are not aimed at them.
This was aimed at them, and for someone like harmy, who would have never left the north of england without cricket, that is scary.
And with all that in mind England are planning on coming back,
“The ECB has informed the Indian board it has agreed to tour India and play two tests, the first at Chennai from December 11-15 and the second at Mohali from December 19-23. The tour will be officially cleared after discussions between the ECB’s security consultant and officials in India, N Srinivasan, the BCCI secretary, said.”
Maybe without Harmy, but he doesn’t like travelling at the best of times.
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