A no, no for Sharjah ??

Faisal_Aslam · #1 (**permalink**) 27th March 2001, 20:19

The Indian Foreign Ministry has reportedly (according to Dubai's Gulf News) taken a decision that the Indian cricket team will, after all, not take the Sharjah trip for the reason that Pakistan is participating in the tournament. Is it not ridiculuous?. If politics & religion is a dangerous mix, politics and sports isn't a lesser one either. Sad day for the followers of the game!.

Faisal_Aslam · #2 (**permalink**) 27th March 2001, 20:20

DAWN
Sharjah organisers vow to play even in India's absence: NEW DELHI, March 27: The chief organizer of cricket in Sharjah today vowed to go ahead with next month's limited-overs tournament despite India's reluctance to take part, said Abdurrehman Bukhatir, chairman of the Cricketers Benefit Fund Series (CBFS). High-level sources in the Indian home ministry told Star TV on Monday that the cricket team had been asked to pull out of the Sharjah tournament but not because Pakistan was also playing. "Intelligence reports say that the cricket played in Sharjah has connections with the underworld," Star TV quoted the sources as saying.

mhnew · #3 (**permalink**) 27th March 2001, 20:44

BJP should not interfering in Cricket like this. Pakistan has I believe declared that they would not play with India ever again. India was saying that the organizers in Sharzah are related to bookies and that's why theya re not playing.

Faisal_Aslam · #4 (**permalink**) 27th March 2001, 20:47

They did not came to Pakistan to play in this season even... They are losser...
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An agitated BCCP Chief announced that Pakistan will not play India anywhere in any event in the future. He said "enough is enough and we do not want to get bothered about India anymore".

[Edited by Faisal_Aslam on 28th March 2001 at 03:43]

mhnew · #5 (**permalink**) 27th March 2001, 22:53

The Cricket board people want to play and the players want to play. Its the govt. in power that keeps preventing them from doing so. So call the gvt. a loser not the team. Their hands are tied in this matter.

Abs · #6 (**permalink**) 28th March 2001, 11:27

Maybe Bangladesh should take their place

mhnew · #7 (**permalink**) 28th March 2001, 16:29

Yea.... To get ourselves whipped. But we need to do that.

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