Attack on SL cricketers show all teams vulnerable: Vaughan

LONDON: Former England captain Michael Vaughan feels sportspersons everywhere have been made to feel vulnerable after the terror attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore that left seven players injured.
"I thought it was getting closer but I honestly never believed it would get as close as to what it did the other day," said Vaughan on Thursday.
"In the last six months of cricket there's been so many things happening - this is the pinnacle. We never wanted to see this kind of event or attack on cricket - we now know it can happen to sports teams," the 34-year-old said.
In the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks in November which forced England to reschedule their tour, Vaughan had expressed safety fears for the game.
"It was something, as cricketers you envisaged would never happen. I turned on the TV to see all of the atrocity that was happening and straight away you start thinking about all the players you've played with and against and hope they can get out it," Vaughan was quoted as saying in the 'Daily Telegraph'.
"As I'm watching it you hear that Stuart Broad's dad, Chris, is out there and you know all the umpires, and to see all of these people have been killed - it's a real tough time for the game," he added.
Seven Sri Lankan cricketers including vice-captain Kumar Sangakkara, Tharanga Paranavitana, Thilan Samaraweera and captain Mahela Jayawardene were injured after 12 masked gunmen attacked their team bus, which was on its way to the Gaddafi Stadium for the third day's play of the second and final Test against Pakistan.