Mark Waugh refuses to tour Pakistan

Mark Waugh has joined the growing band of senior Australian cricketers refusing to tour Pakistan because of security fears, raising more doubts over whether the tour will proceed. Waugh said he expected the tour would be called off but if it wasn’t he would follow the lead of other senior players including Steve Waugh, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Adam Gilchrist by refusing to go.

“I wouldn’t go, I think it’s too dangerous, life is much more important than cricket,” said Waugh, in a television interview broadcast in Australia on Sunday. “Common sense and gut feeling says it’s too dangerous a place to be. If you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time you don’t know what might happen.”