Aussies hope game can return to Pakistan
SYDNEY ( 2008-09-21 16:08:39 ) :Cricket Australia said on Sunday it hoped the security situation in Pakistan would calm down so that international cricket could again be played there, following a massive bomb blast in Islamabad.
"Our reaction is that it's terribly sad and tragic news," CA public affairs manager Peter Young told Australian Associated Press.
"We enjoy playing against them and we have tours coming up there next year of course," he said.
"Everyone is praying quite fervently that the domestic situation there settles down so people can live their life in peace and hopefully we can start playing cricket there again."
Australia was one of the nations that declined to tour Pakistan this month for the International Cricket Council's Champions Trophy on security grounds, which led to the tournament being put off by a year.
"We do have cricket scheduled in Pakistan in 2009 and as always we'll do a pre-tour assessment before we travel there," Young said.
CA did decide to proceed with next month's tour of India even after a series of deadly bomb attacks in New Delhi, prompting criticism from Pakistani officials.
As for the Champions Trophy, Young said the ICC was "trying to come up with dates and venues for that."
"Of course, we were due to be there today. We would have been in Pakistan had the originally scheduled dates gone ahead," he said.
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