I also feel that the ICC should make some kind of special effort to compensate Pakistan for all the cancelled tours and matches. Pakistan stands to lose a lot of money and the loss of this money will set back its plans to develop and upgrade the infrastructure. These are anxious times and our minds are not on sports. But the resumption of baseball was an important symbol in the United States to demonstrate that life had returned to normal. Despite our worries, I am glad to see the domestic cricket season in full swing in Pakistan and there is no halt in the preparation for the SAF Games and the Pakistan Hockey Federation should resist effort to shift the Champions Trophy from Lahore and take it to some other country.
Nobody is in a position to tell what is likely to happen in the immediate future.
That being so, we should not jump to conclusions or rush to fearing the worst. Though he does not rate among the tennis greats, he did win the French Open in 1951 and 1952 and Wimbledon in 1954. Incidentally, when he won Wimbledon, he had a Egyptian passport. He was the first of many tennis stars who left Czechoslovakia to either escape the Cold War or for greener pastures, Martina Navratilova being the most famous among them. Even the family of Martina Hingis left Czechoslovakia for Switzerland.