The ICC is scheduled to meet on Thursday to discuss where and when the Champions Trophy will be held in 2009. Kadambari Murali writes in the Hindustan Times that the international body, inexplicably praised for 'supporting' Pakistan when it chose the convenience of postponing the issue in an nth minute meeting, has to realise there is no point in sweeping something under the carpet because it looks particularly icky.

A decision has to be made: Either a place is safe enough for everyone to travel to or no one. And that decision must be implemented in action and in spirit. There is no point in humiliating a country or embarrassing a game.

In the same paper, Shahid Hashmi feels it the duty of international cricketers to support Pakistan and play for a cause, under tried and tested security arrangements.