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Old 20-09-2004, 01:10 PM in reply to Richard Jenkins's post starting "Just send 15 crickets and tell them..."
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Lets not send any team at all, the players have enough on thier plates keeping in form, without the distraction of having to make individual decissions about weather or not to tour.
The government should issue a directive not to tour, that is within thier powers, certain bodies would heed this.

The ECG together with a government representative should meet with the ICC, and tell them they are not touring, on security grounds, and on moral grounds, and on historical grounds that make it unsafe to tour.
India and Pakistan at times of tension do not play each other, and thier respective governments make most of these decissions, never mind obout free movement of people here, this tour could and probably will cost lives, even if not British lives.

The government will not intervene even though they started the bandwagon at the Word Cup, because they had a rare think, and realised it may harm commerce.

The ECB a group with no backbone, should go it alone if they have to, the ICC have said they will listen, the ECB has not the balls, so we get fined, we keep appealing, and dont pay.

So we get banned, get real, who is going to refuse to play a side the stature of England, hardly anyone, because turnstile cash will talk, they want to see Flintoff in Australia, get revenge in New Zealand.Countries the world over will not stop playing England.

Call the ICC they ban England at thier peril, the ICC would be split beyond recovery, should they try such a ban.
fingers to the world.