Fear of Terror and the Upcoming ICC World Cup

In latest cricket news, ICC and the organizing bodies ofthe cricket board of the said nations are propagating
Indian Sub-Continent are ready to cope with thefor the event and assuring the maximum protection of
expected terrorism in the upcoming World Cup 2011the teams and their followers.
but still the terror threat over looms the most awaitedSimilarly, in India Pakistani players were not selected in
cricket event.IPL as the owner received a lot of threats from the
The fearless attack on the Sri-Lankan team in 2009Indian militant organization and a right wing political
has proven the weak security arrangements by theparty, Shiv Sena. In the same fashion the Aussies
Pakistani Law enforcement agencies. This unfortunatewere also withdrawn from the IPL due to same
event shifted the hosting of World Cup to the rest ofreason.
the three countries as Pakistan had been fallen out ofThe security risk is increasing day by day as the event
the venue. Players from Sri Lankan team were injuredis approaching South Asia. Organizers and security
in this unfortunate event.agencies are trying to make it smooth but there are
Moreover, it has been planned out to move thecertain chances of possible terror attacks on the much
championship to Australia/New Zealand, if in any caseawaited Cricket World Cup.
some uneven incident of terrorism occurs during thisSpeculations have been made out that it would be
mega event of cricket. The same has been confirmedvery difficult to control such situation if some awful
by the cricket board of the New Zealand (focused inincident occurs during this World Cup. Transferring the
the latest cricket news and all sporting news).event to any other destination would not white wash
Definitely it would be an unfortunate event for Souththe red blots of blood out of this magnificent event.
Asians as this mega event is retuning back here afterNo doubt Cricket is not the only game on planet which
15 years. India, Sri-Lanka and Pakistan had co-hostedhas been victimized by terrorism. In the month of
the 1996 World Cup. Similarly in the 1996, AustralianJanuary, a gunman opened fire on the Togo national
team refused to visit Sri Lanka due to possible terrorfootball squad at the venue of Africa Cup of Nations
threat and insurgency in the country.where three persons were killed and many were
The Indian cricket which generates 75% of theinjured.
international revenue of the cricket, may suffer byCricket is the cheapest, most accessible and enjoyable
terrorism.way of entertainment here in South Asia and terrorist
Now all sporting news are focused on the securityorganizations always hit such events and venues
agencies of South Asia, as all three nations arewhere a huge number of people can be targeted
assuring security to all cricket teams are a hugeeasily.
number of fanship around the globe. On the same time