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India cricket tour of Pakistan 'impossible' currently - Gavaskar
A Pakistan tour will be "impossible" for the Indian cricket team next month, in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, veteran skipper Sunil Gavaskar said.
- Agencies
- Published: 08:48 December 11, 2008
New Delhi: A Pakistan tour will be "impossible" for the Indian cricket team next month, in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, veteran skipper Sunil Gavaskar said.
India's tour of Pakistan involving three tests, five one-dayers and a Twenty20 international is scheduled for January 13 through till February 19.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has sought government permission to go ahead for the tour, but is yet to receive a response.
Chances that it will go ahead are slim in the wake of the attacks in Mumbai as tensions between the rival nations are high.
"I think under the present circumstance, when at the highest political and diplomatic level there has been a fallout because of what has happened, I think cricket would not be an exception," Gavaskar told India's CNN-IBN channel late on Wednesday.
"Cricket would be affected by all that unless the signals come from the highest political level. I don't see why cricket won't follow the suit and so at the moment it is impossible to go ahead with the tour."
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