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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is being criticized all over world for the incidence of 3rd March happened in Lahore. Srilanka Cricket Team got to know how unsafe it was to tour Pakistan, when the bullet of terrorist hit five of their players.
These all got normal after a day or two, when Srilanka team reached Colombo safely. But suddenly PCB got thunder from World’s best umpire Simon Taufel, when he criticized PCB for not providing security equal to the level of players. He raised many questions against PCB. But, was it right way to raise questions? If Simon Taufel knew that Pakistan was not safe to tour, why did he tour? If he toured, why didn’t he ask for high level of security at the start of tour?
Question didn’t stop with Simon Taufell. Chris Broad also raised question on security status in Pakistan, who was doing the job of Match Referee in that test series. The issue of Chris Broad went much deeper, when Ijaz Butt, PCB chairman complained against referee with International Cricket Council for making the issue public. Chris Broad in his statement given to media told that "We were promised high level security and in our hour of need that security vanished and they left us to be sitting ducks." These all statement seemed like building castles in the air.
Can any umpire or referee deny touring any country? It is not there in the rules and regulation of the ICC. But, it is clearly mentioned in section 1.1(c) of code and conduct for umpires that no umpire can give any statement in public in which two member countries of ICC are playing match. Simon Taufell violated the code of Conduct and ICC for this kind of behavior must give him notice.
Now, it depends on ICC, what steps it takes in next executive board meeting going to be held in the month of April.