What now for cricket? (141)
- 3 Mar 09, 02:50 PM
Following the dastardly attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team and accompanying officials in Lahore, all of us will rightly feel that this is no time to be talking about sport. The horrors that everyone went through and what the families of the bereaved are now experiencing can only be imagined.
I have never bought into the theory fashionable in some parts of the western world that life in the developing world is cheap. Having grown up as a child in that part of the world, I am very aware that life there is very different to the west and, for the vast majority, much more difficult. But it is just as valuable.
But even amidst the fearful carnage, the implications for cricket, though secondary, cannot be ignored.
