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