Pakistan will 供給する 'foolproof 安全' for T20 final
ISLAMABAD (AP) ― "Foolproof 安全" will be 供給するd to cricketers at the Pakistan 最高の League final in Lahore next month, league chairman Najam Sethi said on Tuesday.
Sethi 簡潔な／要約するd overseas PSL players in Dubai, 部隊d Arab 首長国s, a day before the Twenty20 league begins. All of the PSL will be played in the 首長国s except for the final, which will be in Lahore on March 7.
It was in Lahore where the Sri Lanka team was attacked by テロリストs in 2009. No major teams have returned since then.
FILE - In this 損なう. 3, 2 009 とじ込み／提出する photo, a Sri Lankan players board into a ヘリコプター at Gaddafi stadium after the 狙撃 出来事/事件 by テロリストs in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday, March, 3, 2009. "Foolproof 安全" will be 供給するd to cricketers at the Pakistan 最高の League final in Lahore next month, league chairman Najam Sethi said on Tuesday. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
A month ago, the 連合 of International Cricketers' 協会s 示唆するd overseas players should 拒絶する／低下する to play in the final because "関係者 安全 and safety cannot be 推定する／予想するd or 保証（人）d." Just over a week ago, Giles Clarke, who 長，率いるs the ICC's Pakistan 仕事 Team, went to Lahore at Pakistan's request. He didn't make a 推薦, but said "there's a かなりの 量 of perception that needs to be changed."
The league has attracted the likes of New Zealand's Brendon McCullum, West Indies' Darren Sammy, and Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara, and in an 成果／努力 to 緩和する player worries about Lahore, Sethi told them of the 政府's 安全 計画（する）s.
"The 政府 has also made a 抱擁する 投資 in 安全な・保証するing the city, and 残り／休憩（する） 保証するd we will 供給する foolproof 安全 to the players who will travel for the PSL final," Sethi said in a 声明.
He 追加するd 安全 顧問s will travel to Dubai during the PSL "to 静める the 疑問s and 恐れるs of the players" about 安全 in Lahore.
Wasim Akram, running Islamabad 部隊d in the PSL, reminded foreign players how six cricketers each from Pakistan and India played in Sri Lanka before the 1996 Cricket World Cup, にもかかわらず Australia and the West Indies 没収されるing their group matches in Sri Lanka 予定 to 安全 関心s.
"We played a 肯定的な 役割 in 1996 that was 温かく welcomed in Sri Lanka," Akram said. "It is imperative that cricket returns to the co untry, Pakistanis are 熱烈な about the game.
"My wife, who is an Australian, is staying in Karachi for the last four years and she is having a 広大な／多数の／重要な time ... the 政府 will do everything possible to 確実にする the safety of the players."
Ramiz Raja, another former 実験（する） captain turned television commentator, who lives in Lahore, said if foreign cricketers played in the PSL final it will have a 抱擁する, 肯定的な 影響 on Pakistan cricket fans.
"The perceptions about the place might be muddled, but I can 保証する you that the players who will travel will be making a priceless 出資／貢献 to Pakistan cricket," Raja said. "Once you taste the flavor of cricket in the country you will come to realize how welcoming the （人が）群がるs are."
FILE - In this March 3, 2009 とじ込み／提出する photo, people get ready for funeral 祈りs of 殺害された police officers as terro rists 待ち伏せ／迎撃するd Sri Lanka's cricket team with ライフル銃／探して盗むs, 手りゅう弾s and ロケット／急騰する 発射台s, in Lahore, Pakistan. "Foolproof 安全" will be 供給するd to cricketers at the Pakistan 最高の League final in Lahore next month, league chairman Najam Sethi said on Tuesday. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
