Date:03/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/03/stories/2008120356281700.htm

Sport - Cricket

‘England should go back’

London: Urging the English cricket team to return to India for next week’s Test series, former England captain Nasser Hussain said by doing so Kevin Pietersen and his men can help the host limp back to normalcy after the Mumbai terror strikes.

“England’s cricketers owe it to the game, and to India, to go back,” Hussain said in a column for the Daily Mail .

“I respect the England team for coming home and taking stock after last week’s terrible events. Yet, easy as it is for me to say this sitting here in Chelmsford, my gut feeling is that the England team should announce they are going back to play two Tests in India and fulfil their commitment to this tour and the world game,” he said.

Responsibility

Hussain said while the players’ fear was understandable, they should also realise there responsibilities, one of them being to support the game in its hour of crisis. — Agencies