Another home series loss to affect seriously

LAHORE - Cricket great Zaheer Abbas fear his country will be left alone in international sporting wilderness if India refuses to tour in January for security reasons.
"We will be like orphans in international cricketing community, " Abbas was quoted by a foreign news agency on Monday. "Already most of the Test playing countries are not touring Pakistan and if India does not come it will be worst for us."
India is scheduled to play three Test matches, five limited-overs internationals and a Twenty20 international during its Jan. 4-Feb. 19 tour to Pakistan. However, there are doubts over the tour after terrorist attacks killed at least 172 in Mumbai last Wednesday. The Indian Government had earlier refused permission to its junior hockey team to play five matches in Pakistan last month due to security concerns.