Catalogue of terror
Forces of evil in various guises have always represented a significant danger to elite cricketers visiting the Indian subcontinent, writes Mike Coward in the Australian .
Jamie Alter
25-Feb-2013
Forces of evil in various guises have always represented a significant danger to elite cricketers visiting the Indian subcontinent, writes Mike Coward in the Australian.
While the notion of cricket diplomacy is laudable, countries with a history of unstable government and inured to civil unrest and violence make problematic hosts for Tests and limited-overs matches. And while it is so that cricketers, indeed sportsmen, have never been targeted by those wreaking death and destruction, the England, New Zealand and Australian cricket teams have all been confronted with the outrages of extremists, be they in India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka.
Jamie Alter is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo