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Australian players relieved at Pakistan tour postponement MIL/Agencies, Mar 12, 2008. Sydney: March 12, 2008 - Australia's two players have expressed relief that this month's tour of Pakistan has been postponed. The world champions were due to tour Pakistan for 30 days, but Cricket Australia (CA) put the trip postponed because of a recent spate of suicide bombings, including two on Tuesday in Lahore, where Australia were due to play. "I don't think disappointed is the right word -- I'm rapt Cricket Australia and the ACA (Australian Cricketers' Association) made the decision and it didn't have to come down to individual players," batsman Michael Clarke told Australian Associated Press. "I'm happy it's been sorted out without the players' involvement. I'm very relieved and happy they've done that for the playing group." According to Reuters, Australia have not played a test match in Pakistan since 1998. Their three-test tour scheduled for four years later was moved to Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates because of security concerns. Fast bowler Stuart Clark echoed Michael Clarke's comments and told a Sydney radio station: "I don't think anyone likes it when a cricket tour gets called off, because that's our job, but there was obviously concerns from everyone involved." CA chief executive James Sutherland said they had taken advice from the Pakistan Cricket Board, the Pakistani and Australian governments, and independent security consultants before making their decision. "I am not sure that there was necessarily a belief that cricketers would be specific targets," he told ABC Radio.
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