IS WITHDRAWAL DUE TO PLAYER POWER?

PRINGLE’S VIEWPOINT

Hands-on role? England’s whiteball captain Eoin Morgan has previous when it comes to withdrawals over security concerns. Insets: Ramiz Raja, top, and Ian Watmore, rightCricket has always been a game where self-interest battles the wider needs of the team, so nobody should be that surprised by the England and Wales Cricket Board’s decision to withdraw from a short, goodwill tour of Pakistan. And yet this is also a game that espouses the notion of ‘fair play’ and in that the ECB, and India before them after they left cricket sup...

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