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England pullout from Pakistan series smacks of western conceitedness: Michael Keeping

West Indies yarn Michael Keeping says England’s resolution to abolish its white-ball excursions of Pakistan smacked of ‘western conceitedness’ and the country wouldn’t hang ever done this to a ‘rich and highly effective’ country love India. England males and females americans groups had been scheduled to tour Pakistan in October however the English Board (ECB) cancelled both the series reason being the ‘mental and bodily effectively-being’ of avid gamers will be affected.

“The ECB assertion doesn’t wash with me. No substance. No one wants to come serve forward and withstand something because they know what they did was depraved. So that they effect out a assertion and hid on the serve of a assertion. It just rings a bell in my memory of the rubbish they did with Gloomy Lives Matter,” mentioned the Windies yarn after receiving the Cricket Writers’ Club Peter Smith Award on Tuesday (October 5).

“I gained’t sprint serve into that because I’ve mentioned adequate about that. However what that signal sends to me, is similar western conceitedness. I may treat you the draw I in actuality feel love treating you, it doesn’t matter what you watched, I may just comprise what I need,” he added.

ECB’s resolution to abandon the tour got here just three days after Contemporary Zealand had pulled out of a tour of Pakistan on the final minute, due to safety considerations. If issues would’ve remained the same this could’ve been the key time since 2005 when England men would hang performed in Pakistan, while their girls americans hang by no methodology performed in that country.

Keeping sympathised with Pakistan and mentioned had it been India, England wouldn’t hang dared to abolish the tour.

“Pakistan went to England earlier than vaccines had been obtainable for six or seven weeks they stayed, they performed their cricket, they honoured what England wished them to honour,” mentioned Keeping, who performed 60 Assessments for West Indies earlier than becoming a infamous commentator.

(with PTI inputs)

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