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According to Bangladesh’s Rishad Hossain, Curran’s Airport Tears became a moving moment when England’s Tom Curran sobbed after hearing about Pakistan’s airport closures. Daryl Mitchell of New Zealand, who was equally irritated, highlighted Mitchell’s Pakistan Exit by vowing never to play cricket in Pakistan again. The turmoil experienced by Pakistan Super League players abroad prompted their responses.
Rising tensions between India and Pakistan as a result of India’s calculated reaction to the horrifying May 7 terror attack in Palalgam, which claimed 26 civilian lives, led to the PSL’s indefinite postponement.
Players like Curran, whose song Curran’s Airport Tears encapsulated the anguish, and others were left stranded and struggling with uncertainty. As the league’s future hung in limbo due to the widespread disruptions caused by the military standoff.
PSL players who were booked on connecting flights to their final destinations were flown out to the United Arab Emirates.
Rishad, a member of the Lahore Qalandars team, said it was unsettling to learn that the airport where their charter plane departed on Saturday was attacked by missiles 20 minutes later.
“After landing in Dubai when we heard that a missile struck the airport 20 minutes after we took off from the airport. The news was scary as well as sorrowful and now after reaching Dubai we are feeling relieved,”
Rishad told to media.
“Whenever I go out to play, my family worries for me whether the situation is good or not and now when they heard the news about Pakistan – the bomb-blasts and the missile-strikes here and there- -naturally they were in tension.”
“I personally tried to console them and tell them not to worry about me and they were quite normal,”
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Mitchell’s Firm Stance
Rishad Hossain revealed that his Lahore Qalandars teammate Daryl Mitchell, shaken by the chaos surrounding Curran’s Airport Tears, declared he would never return to Pakistan for cricket. The sentiment, shared amid the PSL’s disruption due to India-Pakistan tensions, underscored the distress felt by overseas players like Mitchell.
“Foreign players like Sam Billings, Daryl Mitchell, Kushal Perera, David Wiese, Tom Curran… all of them were so frightened… Landing in Dubai, Mitchell told me that he would never go to Pakistan again, especially in this kind of scenario. Overall, they all were horrified,” said Rishad.
