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New Zealand Cricket brings CLEAR Black Caps and New Zealand 'A' teams home New Zealand Cricket - 13 September 2001
New Zealand Cricket has decided to bring both the CLEAR Black Caps and the New Zealand 'A' teams back to New Zealand. The CLEAR Black Caps have been waiting in Singapore for the past 24 hours, enroute to Pakistan for a tour due to begin with a warm-up game on 16 September. The New Zealand 'A' team has been competing in a one-day tournament in Hyderabad, India. New Zealand Cricket chief executive, Martin Snedden, said the advice of various foreign affairs departments around the world, and of New Zealand Cricket's own security consultants, is that all travel to Pakistan should be cancelled for the next seven days. "The safety of the players is our only consideration and, given the advice we have received from the Department of Foreign Affairs, it is obvious that we should bring the CLEAR Black Caps home. "We have advised the Pakistan Cricket Board of our decision and, with the PCB, we will re-visit the possibility of some cricket during October, should we be satisfied that the situation has stabilised," Snedden said. The CLEAR Black Caps leave Singapore at 8.00pm this evening (New Zealand time) and will arrive in Christchurch at 10.50am tomorrow morning. Snedden said New Zealand Cricket has withdrawn the 'A' team from the Hyderabad Cricket Association tournament in India and the side will fly out of Hyderabad for Mumbai and Singapore later today. The team will arrive in New Zealand on Saturday morning. "We are perhaps being over-cautious in respect of the 'A' team and acknowledge that India has not been implicated as an 'at risk' nation however we don't want to risk the possibility of the team being caught up in anything that might eventuate," Snedden said. Snedden said New Zealand Cricket had contacted the families of players in both teams to advise them of the decision before it was made public. "As one would expect the families were very relieved and welcomed the decision. This has been a difficult time for the families and New Zealand Cricket has worked hard to ensure they have been kept fully informed of developments and to reassure them that the continuing safety of the two teams is paramount in all decision-making," he said. © New Zealand Cricket
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