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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. Knowing that
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you had players lives in your hands.
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Couple years later, we're in South
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Africa for 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. And I sat down with the players
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and I said, "I just can't let you go
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there." The international cricket people
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didn't give a stuff. They thought we
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were just being objectionable. So I
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defaulted a World Cup match, you know,
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and it cost us a place in the
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semi-finals. And then, you know, these
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people that had been criticizing me in
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world cricket about a year, year and a
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half later, terrorists attacked their
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umpires and match referees in Pakistan
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shot at a bus that they were in and
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someone was wounded and um someone was
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killed. Cricket never went back to
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Pakistan for 20 years after. And I'm
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thinking, yeah, well, if you'd actually
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listened to me, you might have found
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that you wouldn't have had that problem
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then, but you were too ready to put
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money
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>> ahead of welfare of players.