Safety not guaranteed in India, warns Vaughan
Posted on Nov 30, 2008 at 10:00 | Updated Nov 30, 2008 at 11:45
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London: Former England captain Michael Vaughan, who was in Bangalore with the England High Performance team at the time of terrorist attacks in Mumbai, has warned that the players' safety is not guaranteed if the Test team returns to India.
"All the lads will be desperate to play cricket for their country, but they will want to have their safety guaranteed and the trouble with this sort of attack is that safety cannot be guaranteed, even if they are given presidential security," Vaughan has been quoted as saying in the Sunday Telegraph.
"We have a duty to go and play cricket if it is safe to do so, but if the players have fear, they can't go out there and perform. There are a lot of young players in this England squad who are new to this sort of thing. Can they focus and concentrate on cricket so soon afterwards? Any slightly negative mentality and they will get found out," he added.
Even if the English Test team does return to India to play the two Tests, it appears quite possible that some of the players will chose to remain at home, leaving the selectors to make some hasty reshuffling.
"If the Middlesex players had been involved … if they had checked into the Taj hotel 24 hours earlier and if some of their guys had been held hostage, would this Test series be going ahead? Almost certainly not," Vaughan wondered aloud.
As for the former captain himself, he said he would "find it very difficult to go back, having been there and watched the scenes on TV - scenes of gunmen shooting people and corpses being dragged out of a hotel where the England team were staying a fortnight ago and where they were due to be staying in just over a fortnight".
And he warned that even if the tour was to resume, it would 'become like a military camp'.
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Posted By who?
Get out of here !! Who invited you.. you came in for your own sake (read Money). How much Vodafone
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Posted By dejavuworld
Yes, ofcourse, he should play cricket among the crying voices of mothers, wives, daughters and sisters who lost their beloved
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Posted By princepiyush
Can someone please tell Vaughan to shutup. He is being really big hypocrite. All he has been saying since the
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