INTERNATIONAL Cricket Council boss Haroon Lorgat claims Australian umpires Simon Taufel and Steve Davis need time "to be more rational" about the Lahore terrorist attack.
Taufel, Davis and English match referee Chris Broad have all been scathing of the Pakistani security forces after feeling they were left for dead in last Tuesday's ambush by heavily armed gunmen.
They felt deserted by the security escort as they lay stranded on the floor of their van with their driver shot dead and a colleague wounded as the Sri Lankan team bus ahead in their convoy drove away.
But ICC chief executive Lorgat, their boss, said they needed time to calm down and consider what had happened.
"I am mindful of the experience they have gone through and I think it is a difficult time for them," Lorgat said at a press conference in Sydney yesterday.
"I guess if you or I had gone through something we might have reacted in a similar fashion. We must just allow them to settle down and be more rational in their assessment of what has transpired."
For more on this article, please click on the following link: Umps urged to cool criticism of Pakistani forces: The Age
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