The West Indies Women will be guarded by a massive security detail for their upcoming tour of Pakistan with the total security team engaged for the tour expected to be above 800.

The Windies Women arrived in Karachi on Monday, ahead of a three-match ODI series against the hosts.  The tour is part of a reciprocal arrangement after the regional team hosted Pakistan in the Caribbean earlier this year.

International cricket returned to Pakistan in 2019 after a near 10-year absence, following a deadly terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in 2009.  Things have, however, not returned to normal with both New Zealand and England pulling out of tours earlier this year, with security concerns being pointed to as an underlying issue. 

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For their family's sake I hope the players are well insured.

Question to ask....would Skerrit and board members be willing to be there in Pakistan with the team during the games?

800 red flags?

If i was one of those team members this alone will tell me that is not the place to be...

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Very dangerous place.Male Sri Lankan cricket team a few years ago in a travelling coach.Gunmen shot up the coach...some injuries but no deaths.Not running down Pakistan but this is a dangerous place.

Does seem like overkill... maybe Pakistan trying too hard to show ECB/NZ that they take player safety and security seriously?

So are they going to play cricket or to fight war? Sound more like the latter

As long as there are hundreds of young suicide bombers looking to earn 72 raisons...I mean virgins...no one can be safe....not even the Pak people living there.

Officers and SWAT team can go down too.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
Prie Minister Khan means business