
Warriors willing to tour India for CL T20
Western Australia cricketers are eager to travel to India for the Champions League Twenty20.
Western Australia Warriors cricketers are eager to travel to India for the Champions Twenty20 League scheduled from December 3.
Western Australia team members, who were supposed to fly out to India on Saturday, today met WACA chief executive Graeme Wood and the players voted unanimously to go, if cleared to do so by Cricket Australia, which has for the moment banned its members from travelling to the sub-continent.
"We will be guided by Cricket Australia and the WACA certainly won't be jeopardising our staff or players," said Wood who has had discussions with CA Cricket Operations Manager Michael Brown.
"The Australia Cricketers' Association is also involved because they go through the process and we are confident that this will give us the right outcome.
"We've spoken to the players and they are still keen to participate in the Champions League. They will take direction from the ACA as well though.
"As a playing group, they are unanimous in their decision but we won't be making any of them go, it will be their decision (if cleared by CA)," Wood was quoted as Australian Associated Press (AAP).
was about this incident," Ponting said today at the Adelaide Oval.
Australian opener Matthew Hayden, who plays for Chennai Superstars in the IPL, said if the tournament was cancelled it would be a "huge loss" for international cricket.
"But the impact is minor compared to the social and economic impacts that it will have on India," he said.
While Western Australia would be playing their matches in Bangalore, Victoria, the other Australian team which will take part in the Champions League, have reasons for concern as their opening two matches were scheduled at Mumbai.
Cricket Victoria chief executive Tony Dodemaide said he had talked to the players about the situation in Mumbai.
"There's obviously concern, the players have just woken up this morning to all this news - they're meeting at the moment, just to be as updated as they possibly can.
"We're trying to update them with the information as it comes to us."
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