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New Zealand Cricket (NZC) is staying silent on the national team's participation in the Champions Trophy in Pakistan next month.
Its reluctance to voice an opinion comes after the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) advised its players not to attend the tournament on September 12-28, saying a meeting with the International Cricket Council (ICC) taskforce had failed to ease security concerns.
ACA chief executive Paul Marsh told The Australian newspaper the association could not recommend its players compete in Pakistan.
"We feel for the Pakistan Cricket Board and the people of Pakistan but it is the job of the ACA to make recommendations to our members based on whether it is safe to tour.
"Unfortunately in this case we don't believe it is."
An NZC spokesman today said he could not give a date when a decision for the Black Caps would be made, nor could he comment on what the decision was likely to be.
"I'm not trying to create any expectation around the time line, it's possible we may have a decision by Friday, " he said.
"We're waiting for the process with the taskforce which is visiting the member nations, to be concluded, and then we will be making a decision at the end of that process."
New Zealand Cricket Players' Association (NZPCA) executive manager Heath Mills reiterated the ACA's concerns, saying the NZPCA still had concerns following the ICC taskforce meeting in New Zealand last week .
"We will be recommending that players don't travel to Pakistan, and that hasn't changed," Mills said.
"ICC sent their taskforce out here on Thursday, we heard what they had to say, and we fully accept that the security plans that have been designed are of a very high level.
"We have concerns that they won't be delivered effectively and that they are unproven. We'd need to see them demonstrated in a live situation for us to be comfortable with them."
- NZPA
