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the pressure of having your players in Pakistan and a bomb's gone off outside
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of their hotel. It's blown out the windows of the team bus. Fortunately, they weren't sitting on it. Couple of
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years later, we're in South Africa for the cricket world cup and the International Cricket Council want us to
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play Kenya and Nairobi and that was an absolute nogo area for Westerners at the time. So, I defaulted a World Cup match,
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you know, and it cost us a place in the semi-finals. About a year, year and a half later, terrorists attacked umpires
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and match referees in Pakistan. shot at a bus that they were in and someone was wounded and someone was killed. Cricket
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never went back to Pakistan for 20 years after. And I'm thinking, well, if you'd
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actually listen to me, you wouldn't have had that problem then. But you were too
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ready to put money ahead of welfare of players.