Nielsen preparing for Pakistan tour

MELBOURNE, February 18: Australia's tour of Pakistan is hanging in the balance due to security worries but coach Tim Nielsen and his assistants are preparing their strategies in case the trip materialises.
After receiving a discouraging advisory from a security agency, Cricket Australia chairman Creagh O'Connor has expressed his concerns to the Pakistan Cricket Board.
But Nielsen and his coaching team are making preparations for the tour as they have not got any message from their Board.
"We haven't heard anything different. All we're hearing is speculation," Nielsen was quoted as saying by 'The Daily Telegraph'.
"Until CA can send a delegation over there to assess how the security is going, there's a whole lot of information that needs to come in before we can make an informed decision", he said.
"Until they say it's off we have to plan as though it's on, whether it's in Pakistan, somewhere else and whatever," he added.
Peter Young, CA's general manager of public affairs, said the Board's security delegation to Pakistan was waiting for the elections process in the country to get over.
"At the moment everybody wants to wait until after the elections to see what the situation is like and then we will be able to make a call," he said.