Today we saw a shocking incident in which terrorists attacked SL cricket team while they were on their way to stadium from hotel for cricket match. This was a professionally planned and executed attack and highly audacious since attackers were aware of the fact that SL team would be well guarded and still they went ahead and attacked SL cricket team.
My initial reaction was that probably cricketers got struck in a cross fire and were not direct targets but after reading the reports it is pretty clear, they were the target of attacks. This is going to have a long term adverse impact on cricket in subcontinent not just Pakistan.
We have always believed that terrorists will never target cricketers in this part of the world as this will result in them losing people’s sympathy. This used to reduce risk perception to cricketers in our eyes and the only perceptible risk was that cricketers can get struck between a crossfire unintentionally and this can be handled by controlling their movement when they are here. But when terrorists have decided to mark cricketers to be their targets then they are just sitting ducks and this can happen anywhere not just in Pak but also in other sub continental countries.
Lets see what kind of impact is there on Indian cricket due to this. As far as Pakistan goes, it is pretty clear, we are not going to see any major cricketing nation visiting it for some time now.
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