Cricket: India says Hyderabad will host Australia Test
Australia's tour to go ahead as planned, despite twin bombings.
Australia's tour of India will go ahead as planned, despite Hyderabad bombings PHOTO: REUTERS
NEW DELHI:
Hyderabad will host the second cricket Test match between India and Australia beginning next weekend despite the twin bombings in the city, the Indian board said on Friday.
Hyderabad is scheduled to host the second cricket Test match between India and Australia beginning next weekend despite the twin bombings in the city, the Indian board said on Friday.
At least 20 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when bombs ripped through a crowded suburb of the big metropolis on Thursday.
Indian police have called this an act of terrorism.
The series has not been interrupted and Chennai was hosting the first Test match against Australia which started on Friday.
Rajeev Shukla, spokesman for the Board of Control for Cricket in India, said federal and government officials had given assurances about security in the wake of Thursday night's deadly attacks. "So the test match should not be shifted out of Hyderabad," he said in comments broadcast on Indian TV.
International cricket has been affected since the onset of terrorism in the last ten years.
In July 2007, the London train bombings had threatened to jeapordise the then ongoing Ashes series and in 2009, terrorist attacked the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan.
Since those attacks no cricket team has toured Pakistan. The Australian cricket team also cancelled its March 2008 tour of Pakistan citing security concerns.
Hyderabad will host the second cricket Test match between India and Australia beginning next weekend despite the twin bombings in the city, the Indian board said on Friday.
Hyderabad is scheduled to host the second cricket Test match between India and Australia beginning next weekend despite the twin bombings in the city, the Indian board said on Friday.
At least 20 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when bombs ripped through a crowded suburb of the big metropolis on Thursday.
Indian police have called this an act of terrorism.
The series has not been interrupted and Chennai was hosting the first Test match against Australia which started on Friday.
Rajeev Shukla, spokesman for the Board of Control for Cricket in India, said federal and government officials had given assurances about security in the wake of Thursday night's deadly attacks. "So the test match should not be shifted out of Hyderabad," he said in comments broadcast on Indian TV.
International cricket has been affected since the onset of terrorism in the last ten years.
In July 2007, the London train bombings had threatened to jeapordise the then ongoing Ashes series and in 2009, terrorist attacked the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan.
Since those attacks no cricket team has toured Pakistan. The Australian cricket team also cancelled its March 2008 tour of Pakistan citing security concerns.