Australia ‘comfortable’ with security on eve of Pakistan tour

February 25, 2022 Team MVR

Test skipper Pat Cummins on Friday said his team is “comfortable” with security arrangements and excited by what lies ahead, as Australia prepare to jet into Pakistan on their first tour since 1998.

They are due to leave over the weekend ahead of the first of three Tests in Rawalpindi on March 4 — giving them less than a week to acclimatise and without any warm-up matches.

Pat Cummins is expecting Australia's tour of Pakistan to be a significant variation from the high-tempo, fast-moving Ashes summer against England #PAKvAUS https://t.co/qDnyKvWQqm

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) February 25, 2022

It will be followed by Tests in Karachi and Lahore before three ODIs and a single T20, all in Rawalpindi.

“We’ve got to a place where everyone hopping on the plane is comfortable with where it’s all sitting. It’s been a really thorough body of work that the security and the logistics teams have worked through,” Cummins said.

“And obviously the added layer of bio-security in these times as well. So we’re feeling really good and once we get over there, we’re going to be able to just concentrate on the cricket.

“More than anything it’s a really special tour,” he added. “We’re going to fly over there and experience something for the first time. We’re really excited, everyone is in a good place.”