08-20-2008, 10:27 PM
[center]<b><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Aussies refuse to take part in Champions Trophy</span></b>[/center]
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>SYDNEY : Top players from <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>defending champions Australia have officially refused to tour Pakistan for the 2008 ICC Champions Trophy, plunging the tournament in further chaos just a few weeks before the start of the biennial event.</span></b>
The rejection may finally force the International Cricket Council (ICC) to move the tournament to stand-by venue Sri Lanka. The announcement came just hours before ICC president David Morgan was on Tuesday flying from Beijing to Dubai for an urgent meeting on the troubled event.
Sources in London claim there was an equally adverse reaction from the England players at a meeting with ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat in Edinburgh on Sunday night.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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