Bangladesh is cancelling all foreign tours citing the reason that it cannot guarantee enough security for the visiting teams. This immediately means an end to the planned tour by the Pakistani team and, for the short-term future, an end to visits by any cricket team.

So Pakistan and Bangladesh are out of the running. Sri Lanka could be the next as the Tamil Tigers sense an opportunity to disrupt the calm in Colombo. And India is also facing many challenges with heightened security concerns after the Mumbai attacks. Any repeat incidents could put an end to any international matches in the sub-continent.

It is time for governments to step in and fix the security issue from both a police/military standpoint and a political view. All of these crises involve some political grievances and it will require political leadership to solve them. The Indian sub-continent had been growing by leaps and bounds in the last decade and terrorism could put a quick end to that.