NEW DELHI: Australian players are concerned about the recent bombings in Delhi, where the third Test will be held, according to the fast bowler Stuart Clark.
However, the team's travelling security consultant Frank Dimasi will not make a final recommendation on whether the squad should play in Delhi until closer to the match.
The latest attack came on Saturday when a low-grade bomb went off in a crowded marketplace, killing three people. That blast came a fortnight after a series of five synchronised bomb attacks which killed at least 30 people around Delhi.
"It is pretty fresh in everyone's mind at the moment," Clark said on the Sydney radio station 2KY. "We are still hanging out and waiting to see what will happen.
"But there is some sort of concern that we are going to somewhere where an explosion has just been. I would be lying if I said there wasn't concern and that we are going to Delhi and there is that sort of thing going on."
After spending a week in Jaipur the Australians have arrived in Hyderabad, where they will have their most testing hit-out to date with a first-class tour match. The Test series begins in Bangalore and then moves on to Mohali, before the third Test starts in Delhi on October 29.
The Age reported that the squad is receiving regular updates from Dimasi, the security consultant who is travelling with the group and who has prepared a report for Cricket Australia.
Peter Young, the Cricket Australia spokesman, said that following a briefing from Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, it was decided that no further restrictions would be placed on the players' movements for the time being.
"The protocols haven't changed," Young told the Australian. "They're doing things like avoiding major markets and avoiding religious gatherings on public holidays. The sorts of things that tourists are advised to avoid as well." |
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