Gaddafi Stadium

I can't name them.

So I said, why should I tell you where I am allowing? Lahore was fine because Lahore is the citadel cricket, Gaddafi Stadium.

But Lahore also, I was very troubled about the route.

There were some places where it slowed down and things.

um and very often so when you're reading the news it's it's all autocue it's something that's scripted producers go and edit it and we read sort of the finished article if you like occasionally when breaking news comes in um the scripts aren't done in time so you have to talk over live pictures that are being streamed in and keeping across what's called the wires so the wires are like your news agencies where breaking stories are so you'd have to be on a computer you see sometimes newsreaders are on a computer or you know they've got those pieces of paper that they And it's news that's literally just broken that comes in.

And there was an occasion where... terrible very rare occurrence had happened where the Sri Lankan cricket team were in Pakistan in Lahore about to go into the Gaddafi stadium to play one of the test matches and they were ambushed by like masked men with guns and everything shots fired and all of a sudden all the scripts disappeared and these pictures were just sort of flashed up on the on the screen and And in my ear, all I heard was, can you just talk over these live pitches and who is it getting off the coach and all of this thing? And they were all Sri Lankan cricketers.

Now, my background was in football and I very much knew, you know, the game.

I knew the players, the tactics, all of that.

That has a political element, and the political element is that the Australian Prime Minister wades in on what happened on the cricket field and it played a part in why Cricket Australia had to come down so hard on them.

Pakistan played at the Gaddafi Stadium.

India played at the Narendra Modi stadium.

Like how do you take the politics out of these things? I don't even under- Imran Khan was ,you know, Sri Lanka with their rule of, of the, the sports minister having to tick off the team.