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CA in a limbo

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Cricket Australia (CA) is yet to consider the position of players who refuse to tour Pakistan for the Champions Trophy. James Sutherland, the CA chief executive, said the board was currently interesled in understanding the security issues and concerns and about whether the tournament will go ahead.
' Then we get down to the decision for us as io whether we're comfortable," Sutherland told the Age.
Australia have till August 15 to name their final squad for the Champions Trophy and Sutherland expects to have a better picture of the situation by then. "We have a high level of confidence in the consultants that have been engaged to work with ICC and the authorities in Pakistan. Now it is a matter of getting a better understanding in the coming couple of weeks from those consultants of how successful that implementation has been."
Andrew Symonds, the Australian allrounder, has expressed his reservations over
touring Pakistan, a country that in the past year has had a state of emergency imposed on it, suffered the assassination of a former prime minister, followed by riots and bomb attacks on two of its cities. But other players, including Shane Watson and Nathan Hauritz, have said they will be happy to play anywhere as long as they get to represent Australia.
The Australian offspinner has echoed Watson's feelings on the Champions Trophy in Pakistan, saying he didn't care where he played as long he got to represent his country.
Watson had said he'd play anywhere but some Australian players, including Andrew Symonds, expressed iheir reservations on touring Pakistan, which had two bomb attacks on its cities in the past two weeks.
However Hauritz, who was named in Australia's 30 probables for the Champions Trophy, said getting the chance to play for the national team didn't happen all the time. "You can go to a number of places in this world that are dangerous," Hauritz, who last played for Australia in 2004, told the Sydney-based Daily Telegraph. "But at the end of the day it's not
my call and it's up to Cricket Australia I'm sure they will do everything they can to make sure it's safe.”
Peter Young, the Cricket Australia spokesman, made it clear the board wouldn't send players to a place that was dangerous. "We understand the players' concerns," Young said. "It is a concern of ours. International cricket is important to billions of fans around the world but. like Andrew [Symonds] said. It's only a game', and the issue is if we can justify sending our players anywhere where it might be dangerous.”
Australia are expected to take a decision on whether or not to tour Pakistan in three weeks. While the board, along with New Zealand Cricket and the England board, had hired Reg Dickson, an independent security expert, to visit Karachi and submit a report on the security measures for the Asia Cup, Cricket Australia's own operations chief, Michael Brown, is not expected back from his annual leave till next week.Youngsajd. zkujjv
Earlier this year Australia postponed th ei? tour of Paki^PdrttMelo security concerns. They are now scheduled to visit the country for bilateral series in 2009 and 2010.