{"id":9575,"date":"2008-08-12T13:22:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/08\/12\/lawson-enlisted-to-help-in-champions-trophy-revolt\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:35:06","slug":"lawson-enlisted-to-help-in-champions-trophy-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/12\/lawson-enlisted-to-help-in-champions-trophy-revolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawson enlisted to help in Champions Trophy revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>ICC hopeful tournament will go ahead in Pakistan<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"290\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/GeoffLawson_180x232.jpg\"\/>PAKISTAN coach Geoff Lawson has been recruited by the ICC to help convince cricketing nations Pakistan is safe for the Champions Trophy.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>With the one-day showpiece just weeks away uncertainty remains over who will actually show for the September tournament. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have voiced their disapproval at the security situation in the country and have yet to confirm they will be sending a team to Pakistan next month. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Aussie Lawson has in the past tried to appease the concerns of the nations but will now get the chance to fly out for face-to-face talks courtesy of the ICC. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0&#8220;The ICC made the request about ten days ago,&#8221; Mansoor Suhail, a PCB spokesman, told Cricinfo. &#8220;He has been living here and he is Australian so it is a good thing. He will go meet players and tell them what it is like here.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The trip was funded by the ICC\u2019s task force who are in Pakistan assessing the security situation. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It is a very logical thing to do,&#8221; Suhail said. &#8220;They are funding the trip and hopefully it will assuage the concerns of leading players and convince them to come here.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>For the home nation, business continues as usual. Pakistan announced their 15-man team for the tournament. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar returns to the squad following the suspension of his 18-month ban, while there were further recalls for Umar Gul, Shahid Afridi and Salman Butt. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICC hopeful tournament will go ahead in Pakistan PAKISTAN coach Geoff Lawson has been recruited by the ICC to help convince cricketing nations Pakistan is safe for the Champions Trophy. &#13; With the one-day showpiece just weeks away uncertainty remains over who will actually show for the September tournament. &#13; Australia, New Zealand and South [&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-9575","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\/9575","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=9575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/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=9575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}