It
wouldn't be a tour of Sri Lanka without a bomb
blasting somewhere in the country -- yet nowhere near the visiting team --
followed by the media making a bigger deal out of it than they probably should.
To England's credit, it seems like the team is staying and the tour is set to
go ahead. (Much to the player's chagrin, I presume. For a second there they
must have thought they would get out of the vicious shellacking they're set to
receive from a Sri Lankan team straight off a testing Australian tour. No such
luck, boys.)
Contrast this to South Africa's position last year, who decided to pull out of
a triangular ODI tournament in the country after a similar blast. I never quite
got that one... aren't there about 2,500 homicides in Johannesburg alone every
year? You don't see the South Africans boycotting games at the Wanderers, do
you? Why should the SSC ground in Colombo be any different?
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