{"id":9537,"date":"2007-11-15T11:32:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T11:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/15\/australia-doubt-over-pakistan-tour\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:31:28","slug":"australia-doubt-over-pakistan-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/15\/australia-doubt-over-pakistan-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia doubt over Pakistan tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Political tensions worry Aussies<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"282\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/AndresSymonds180x232.jpg\"\/>REMARKS by Australian bowler Andrew Symonds have cast doubt over their tour of Pakistan next year.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Symonds said current political tensions in Pakistan mean the team may have to rethink their first tour of the country since 1999. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;There do seem to be a lot of bombs going off over there. At the end of the day it is only a game of cricket,&#8221; Symonds said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;But I suppose, being the diplomat that I am, we are going to have to wait and see when we get closer to the time how many bombs are going off over there. But it is being bombed.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But Pakistan coach and former Australian bowler Geoff Lawson said the Australians had no reason to worry. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;The most fascinating part of it for me is that most people in this part of the world seem pretty much untroubled by what is going on,&#8221; Lawson told the Sydney Herald. &#8220;Cricket, in particular, is the great untouchable of the subcontinent. Certainly, that&#8217;s the way of it in Pakistan. I&#8217;m very comfortable.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Australia are due to tour Pakistan in February next year for the first time since 1999.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Previous tours were moved to neutral venues in Sri Lanka and Sharjah due to security concerns.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political tensions worry Aussies REMARKS by Australian bowler Andrew Symonds have cast doubt over their tour of Pakistan next year. &#13; Symonds said current political tensions in Pakistan mean the team may have to rethink their first tour of the country since 1999. &#13; &#8220;There do seem to be a lot of bombs going off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}