Black Caps tour of Pakistan

[Donsteppa]

A couple of interesting Tweets:

https://twitter.com/SajSadiqCricket/status/1438798911158824961?s=20

https://twitter.com/SajSadiqCricket/status/1438799526979067907?s=20

Edit, similar to what's on the Cricinfo match feed:

This is from the PCB: "Earlier today, the New Zealand cricket board informed us that they had been alerted to some security alert and have unilaterally decided to postpone the series.

"PCB and Govt of Pakistan made fool proof security arrangements for all visiting teams. We have assured the New Zealand cricket board of the same. The Prime Minister spoke personally to the Prime Minister of New Zealand and informed her that we have one of the best Intelligence systems in the world and that no security threat of any kind exists for the visting team.

"The security officials with the NZ team have been satisfied with security arrangements made by the Govt of Pakistan throughout their stay here. PCB is willing to continue the scheduled matches. However, cricket lovers in Pakistan and world over will be disappointed by this last minute withdrawal."

[taniwharugby]

Will they get spots in MIQ at short notice...

[delicatessen]

@donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:

A couple of interesting Tweets:

https://twitter.com/SajSadiqCricket/status/1438798911158824961?s=20

https://twitter.com/SajSadiqCricket/status/1438799526979067907?s=20

Edit, similar to what's on the Cricinfo match feed:

This is from the PCB: "Earlier today, the New Zealand cricket board informed us that they had been alerted to some security alert and have unilaterally decided to postpone the series.

"PCB and Govt of Pakistan made fool proof security arrangements for all visiting teams. We have assured the New Zealand cricket board of the same. The Prime Minister spoke personally to the Prime Minister of New Zealand and informed her that we have one of the best Intelligence systems in the world and that no security threat of any kind exists for the visting team.

"The security officials with the NZ team have been satisfied with security arrangements made by the Govt of Pakistan throughout their stay here. PCB is willing to continue the scheduled matches. However, cricket lovers in Pakistan and world over will be disappointed by this last minute withdrawal."

Yeah that doesn't ring particularly true

Edit: i mean the bolded bit in the last spoiler

[canefan]

@labcat I was a little surprised they went at all in the current climate

[No Quarter]

What the hell were they doing in Pakistan anyway? It's just a hotbed of Islamic terrorism, you couldn't pay me enough to go there as an unknown tourist let alone a high profile athlete.

[delicatessen]

Ironically, our next scheduled fixture is vs Pakistan in our first T20 World Cup game in ~7 weeks.
Not sure what they'll do with the players - is there anything else that could be arranged at short notice?
Maybe take Pakistan to UAE?

[Donsteppa]

I wonder what changed on the morning of the game.

Pakistani fans are quite unhappy on social media about it all...

[MN5]

It’s incredible that a cluster fuck of a country like Pakistan has produced as many genuine greats of the game as it has. Good grief, what a fiasco. This thread plays it all out nicely ( game about to start, less than an hour later everything called off )

[Sprinko]

@taniwharugby don’t start me on MIQ priority….

[booboo]

@donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:

I wonder what changed on the morning of the game.

Pakistani fans are quite unhappy on social media about it all...

Going to declare jihad?

[taniwharugby]

@booboo if there was a genuine threat, they are possibly in more.danger right now...

[Higgins]

Does forfeiture of the games by default now mean they count toward the rankings as the lack of DRS had no bearing on their "creative home umpires" down to adjudicate so is now no longer a valid reason for them not the count. Can't recall what happened with the Test Championship points allocations when the Aussies declined to tour South Africa but if you don't turn up they should be awarded to the opposition. Still Covid19 did have a bearing on that situation.

[LABCAT]

@higgins said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:

Does forfeiture of the games by default now mean they count toward the rankings as the lack of DRS had no bearing on their "creative home umpires" down to adjudicate so is now no longer a valid reason for them not the count. Can't recall what happened with the Test Championship points allocations when the Aussies declined to tour South Africa but if you don't turn up they should be awarded to the opposition. Still Covid19 did have a bearing on that situation.

Yeah aussie didn't get any points, but don't think they were awarded to SA either. I know the England board was considering trying claim forfeiture for the last game against India.

Anyway ODI's weren't actually part of the ODI championship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–2023_ICC_Cricket_World_Cup_Super_League

So they only thing on the line was standard ranking points.

[Machpants]

This sort of thing happens when your government is the defacto backer of the Taliban and all sorts of other nutters. If there is a place to boycott, like apartheid SA, Pakistan is it for cricket

[Bones]

https://images.dawn.com/news/1188426/celebrities-react-with-shock-and-anger-at-new-zealand-abruptly-backing-out-of-pakistan-tour

[No Quarter]

@Bones perhaps they should be more taken aback by the rampant Islamic extremism in the country that means you have to take all threats (like this bomb threat) seriously.

[MN5]

All the cricket pages I follow on FB are predictably full of rampant Pakistan fans slamming the “cowardly” Black Caps and extolling the virtues of their “amazing, beautiful, safe” country.

….and I thought Indian fans were bad.

[mariner4life]

Fuck Pakistan. backwards shithole bordering on a failed state. Why in the fuck would anyone go there?

[Donsteppa]

@mn5 said in Black Caps tour of Pakistan:

All the cricket pages I follow on FB are predictably full of rampant Pakistan fans slamming the “cowardly” Black Caps and extolling the virtues of their “amazing, beautiful, safe” country.

….and I thought Indian fans were bad.

Yep, all sorts of vile rubbish was being posted on the White Ferns social media updates during their ODI last night.

[Bovidae]

Now that the players have left Pakistan NZC will need to say what the "specific, credible security threat" was. Pakistan probably won't tour NZ in a while, and they have been one of the regular visitors.