Aussie cricket stars face dilemma on India and Pakistan return after fleeing to Australia because of safety concerns

Australia's cricketers are successful a authorities of flux, uncertain whether the Indian Premier League volition resume and immoderate questioning if they volition instrumentality regardless.

Players boarded flights retired of India connected Saturday, aft the tourney was postponed connected Friday owed to the escalating struggle with Pakistan.

Australians featuring successful the Pakistan Super League were besides readying trips home, aft plans to determination the remainder of that tourney to the UAE were abandoned.

But arsenic players began making their exits with astir connected multi-leg flights, it emerged some tournaments could perchance resume aft a ceasefire betwixt the 2 countries.

Reports of explosions person since been reported successful borderline towns successful the Kashmir portion successful the hours aft that ceasefire, prompting further questions connected whether a resumption volition beryllium possible.

AAP understands that determination is simply a genuine question from immoderate players whether they would privation to instrumentality to play retired the tournament, aft being near shaken by the concern implicit the past week.

If the IPL was to resume, shifting each games to confederate parts of India, good distant from the Pakistan borderline would look the astir apt option.

The Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings are already retired of finals contention, with each lone having 1 oregon 2 games left.

Pat Cummins, Travis Head and Nathan Ellis are Australians playing for those 3 lower-ranked teams.

The IPL model is besides meant to adjacent connected May 25, with Australia acceptable to statesman preparations for the World Test Championship last against South Africa starting connected June 11.

Australians from the Pakistani Super League are besides unsure if that tourney could resume, and whether they would beryllium capable to spell backmost and play owed to logistics.

Channel 7 presenter Erin Holland, who has been reporting from Pakistan, spoke of the dash backmost Down Under.

'I'm conscionable really, truly sad,' she told Sunrise.

'I sojourn some (countries) precise frequently, moving successful cricket, and person a batch of emotion for everyone.'

'I had six Aussies with maine connected the plane, Aussie cricketers who came out, truthful everyone's conscionable looking guardant to getting location to their families.

'(I'm) benignant of mislaid for words to beryllium honest. It's been a truly hard time.'

Grace Hayden, girl of cricket fable Matthew Hayden, is presenting for broadcaster Star India and remains successful Mumbai, portion her begetter has travelled from Dharamshala to Delhi arsenic portion of efforts to get home.

'It was beauteous scary past nighttime astatine workplace watching the crippled and they called it disconnected truthful we each conscionable watched what was going connected there,' Grace said.

'Dad is okay, they got him and everyone retired safely. They are handling it truly well. We are taking it infinitesimal by infinitesimal truthful it feels beauteous overseas close now.'

Grace, who has been moving with the IPL for 4 years, echoed Holland’s affectional response.

'I person a heavy emotion for some countries,' she said.

'To ticker this unfold is heartbreaking, conscionable horrible. I recognize I americium highly privileged and I person options. It is each precise sad.'

Players successful Pakistan narrowly avoided being caught up successful the play connected Friday, flying retired of an airbase successful Islamabad hours earlier it was struck by missiles.

The information of players successful the IPL was thrown into the spotlight connected Thursday night, aft a crippled betwixt Dharamsala was abandoned mid-match with aerial raid warnings successful the area.

The lucifer ended up being the past 1 played earlier officials met the adjacent time to postpone games for astatine slightest a week, with that clasp acceptable to beryllium lifted connected Thursday.

Another enactment for Indian officials would beryllium to determination games overseas, with South Africa and the UAE having antecedently hosted games.

The English and Wales Cricket Board are besides reported to beryllium unfastened to assisting by hosting matches, with 12 regular-season games inactive scheduled to beryllium played and 4 finals.