New Delhi: Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has termed revival of international cricket in Pakistan with the tour of Zimbabwe team as a ‘baby step’.
Zimbabwe are the first Test side to tour Pakistan in six years since the terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team bus in March 2009.
“Whatever the country’s Boards may decide, I am sure not many top Indian players would like to go there and play if they are asked today. After what happened in 2009, most players would refuse to tour the country,” Gavaskar told NDTV.
“India’s top players may not tour Pakistan,” Sunil Gavaskar said.
“It will be just a baby step. There are more steps required before it can say that international cricket is back in Pakistan,” he added.
It is pertinent to mention here that Sri Lankan cricket team attack took place in March 2009, when the bus carrying the cricketers, was fired upon by 12 gunmen, near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
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