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A week after terrorists attacked the Sri Lankan team in Lahore, Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, has said that he expects teams to tour Pakistan in “six to nine months”. He was also confident that Pakistan would remain a co-host of the 2011 World Cup.”I’d expect tours to start again as soon as possible. I’d give it six to nine months,” Butt told . “I definitely think that we will stage part of the World Cup in 2011.”Butt, however, said that he would expect the Pakistan government to guarantee visiting teams’ security. “I would want us to get security to a level that would be a guarantee from my government that no such incident like this could happen again, or I will not invite anybody,” he said.”Once I have this assurance I may then invite people to come here. But this can happen anywhere. I cannot give that guarantee, but my government can. If they cannot then we will not have cricket in Pakistan at all.”ICC president David Morgan had said earlier that “it would seem the level of security was not as expected” at the time of the terrorist attack. The security measures were also criticised by the match referee Chris Broad and umpire Simon Taufel who were among those attacked.

Rahul Dravid is one of the few Indian batsmen whose average in New Zealand is more than his overall average. Preparing in Bangalore for his one last chance to win a Test, and a series, in New Zealand, Dravid feels not much should be read into the last trip. “I don’t think it’s particularly difficult [to play in New Zealand],” Dravid told Cricinfo. “I have always enjoyed touring there. Everyone is basing their assumptions on the last tour [in 2002-03], but it was probably an aberration.”It was certainly a tour where all that could go wrong for India did go wrong, from landing in Auckland – where Harbhajan Singh and Sourav Ganguly were fined for carrying soiled cricket boots – to the practice pitches and the actual matches. John Wright, then India’s coach, mentions in his book, Indian Summers, how Dravid had by the end of it all said he would need to go back home to learn batting again.Even the practice facilities were not great on that tour. “We’d expect a tough time on the field, but the practice wickets were spicier than what you’d expect or want,” Dravid said.This time around, India have decided to do away with the tour game as well. “It’s never an ideal scenario, but that’s the way it is nowadays. We just have to try and learn to deal with what we have got. It’s a question of getting your mind right in time for the Tests.”Six years have gone since then,and Dravid can say in hindsight that the conditions he played in on the 1998 tour were as good as any. “The wickets were very good, both in Test matches and one-dayers. The wickets were actually fantastic: good to bat on, something in them for bowlers as well.”It may have been a “freak tour” in 2002-03, but it doesn’t explain India’s lack of success in New Zealand on previous visits. “Maybe because we don’t tour there very often – we last went there six years ago,” said Dravid. “We generally make a trip to England and Australia every three or four years. At least in my generation we haven’t gone there enough – I have made three-four trips to every country, and there are one-day tournaments as well.”So maybe that [familiarity] is the only issue when people say it’s a difficult place for us to tour.”Sachin Tendulkar, among others, has spoken of the physical challenges of playing in New Zealand – the chilly conditions, and adjusting to bowlers bowling with and into the strong Wellington wind. But that, for Dravid, is just another challenge that international cricket brings.”Wellington can be a little breezy; Napier sometimes,” he said. “But is it colder than some of the days you have played in England? I don’t think so. It’s windy as well in England, and sometimes in Australia.”We have played in cold weather before, we have played in windy conditions before… we have played on seaming wickets before. Counting out the tour last time, if I look at the trip of ’98, I have played on better wickets in New Zealand than I have in some places in England, Australia or South Africa.”The New Zealand is an interesting juncture – both for India and Dravid. India have largely been on an upswing in the past year, and this could be the last test before they become one of the best three teams in the world.Dravid showed signs of coming out of a personal slump, with a century in Mohali, but it will be a victory at an individual level for a batsman like him to do well in conditions that are demanding and impossible to replicate when he trains at home.”It’s always a challenge to do well abroad. Because you go out of your comfort zone” he said. “There’s always a great challenge and a great buzz about doing well in conditions that the opposition know better than you. Not only as an individual, but as a team. It’s always exciting when you come out with a series win abroad.”India will start the stronger team on paper, but Dravid is not looking at the results before the process. “I’d be disappointed if we went there and didn’t play good cricket. That’s what we can focus on, and not worry about the results and the rankings. Where we are in the rankings also depends on what other teams do. Who wins where, who loses where, what happens in the Australia-South Africa series.”We didn’t play particularly good cricket there on the last two trips. I think we have got the kind of team now that should play good cricket. I’ be a little disappointed if we didn’t play well and compete there. If we do play well, we might end on the right side of the result.”

Yusuf Abdulla’s three top-order wickets, including two in an over, handed the Dolphins the first of the best of three semi-final against Cape Cobras at Newlands. Abdulla got in to the act after HD Ackerman’s 53-ball 62, along with Sanath Jayasuriya’s quickfire 41, took the Dolphins to 162. He bowled Henry Davids off the second ball of the innings and followed it by trapping Herschelle Gibbs lbw off the fifth. When Abdulla had JP Duminy caught behind for 17, the Cobras had been reduced to 35 for 3. He then ran out Andrew Puttick to make it 46 for 4. Graeme Smith, who was making his return to competitive cricket, batted for 32 runs before an attempted slog-sweep off Daryn Smit was caught by Alfonso Thomas at midwicket in the 10th over. His departure triggered a collapse, with Sanath Jayasuriya picking up two wickets in two balls. Richard Levi remained unbeaten on 48 off 28 balls, but the Cobras finished their 20 overs 15 runs short of their target. The two teams will now meet in Durban for the second leg on Sunday.The Eagles chased down 105 in 12.1 overs to go one-up over Warriors in their rain-shortened first semi-final in Bloemfontein. Rain interrupted the match halfway through the tenth over of the Warriors’ innings – they had reached 59 for 2. On resumption, the match was reduced to 14 overs each and Warriors, helped by two fours and a six from Arno Jacobs, reached 100. The Eagles stayed ahead of the required run-rate right from the start, with Adrian McLaren scoring a run-a-ball 18 and adding 45 with Boeta Dippenaar. After McLaren’s dismissal in the sixth over, Dippenaar was joined by Morne van Wyk and the two proceeded to score at more than nine an over. They took Wayne Parnell for 19 runs in his second over – the 12th of the innings – with van Wyk hitting three consecutive fours before Dippenaar wrapped it up with a four off Robin Peterson. The two teams will face off in Port Elizabeth for the second and third legs.

The BBC’s Test Match Special scorer and renowned statistician, Bill Frindall, has died aged 69 after contracting Legionnaire’s disease while on a cricket tour to Dubai.Frindall had scored and played on the trip and was thought to be suffering from flu when he returned to England on January 20. But his condition worsened and he failed to recover after a lung collapsed last weekend.Frindall was a fixture of since 1966, when he took over from Arthur Wrigley, the BBC’s long-standing scorer. Known as the Bearded Wonder, Frindall quickly became renowned for his accuracy and statistical interjections live on air. A very good bowler in his youth, he was introduced to scoring while still at school, deputising for someone at his local club.After spending six-and-a-half years in the RAF he was given a trial-run at the BBC of three matches, which he passed with flying colours. He later went on to work with John Arlott, whom he wrote of fondly in his 2006 autobiography, , and Brian Johnston. His producer for 34 years, Peter Baxter, spoke to Cricinfo of Frindall’s remarkable longevity.”When I joined in 1966 he was already there, it was his first season, and he was still there when I left so he was easily the longest serving member of the team,” Baxter, who retired in 2007, said. “He had a dry, laconic sense of humour and was very quick to spot the possible pun. Brian Johnston was another and he almost created Bill as a character; Brian needed props and Bill was a straight man for him.”Away from the TMS box he edited the pocket-sized for 23 editions – the traditional accompaniment to the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack – as well as a host of other books. He campaigned for cricket at all levels, too, as President of British Blind Sport and he was a very active member of the Lord’s Taverners since 1972. “He was a great supporter of cricket in his local area,” added Baxter. “He carried on playing as well, although the bowling wasn’t quite as quick as it once might have been.”His colleague and friend, Jonathan Agnew, the BBC’s cricket correspondent, said Frindall brought cricket scoring alive. “This is what Bill will always be remembered for,” Agnew told the BBC. “The weird world of cricket scoring to many people is incredibly dull but Bill made it interesting; he made it lively.”Matthew Patten, the chief executive of the Lord’s Taverners, told Cricinfo: “We are all very very sad about it. Bill was a long time supporter of the Lord’s Taverners both in his playing and commentating capacity and we feel for his family.”Bill was a regular part of Taverners’ cricket tours, which he described as being ‘rather special’,” Patten added. “He relished having opened the batting with Jack Robertson, taking guard against John Snow and Dennis Lillee and bowling to Reg Simpson with Godfrey Evans behind the stumps.”Tributes also came from the England squad currently touring West Indies. “Bill Frindall was renowned for the sheer breadth of his knowledge and the deep and lasting affection he had for the game of cricket itself,” Hugh Morris, the managing director of England cricket, said. “He will be much missed not only by millions of radio listeners worldwide but also by the fraternity of cricketing scorers in England and Wales whose work he did so much to champion.”On behalf of the many past and present England players who considered him a good friend, I would like to send our condolences to his family.”In 2004 Frindall was awarded the MBE for his services to the sport.

Gujarat 394 (PA Patel 206, Panchal 59, TK Patel 48) beat Orissa 162 (Behera 49, Parmar 6-53) and 154 (Behera 50, Parmar 6-51, TK Patel 3-46) by an innings and 78 runs
Scorecard

Niranjan Behera fought hard yet again, but there was not much support from the others as Orissa crashed to an innings-and-78-run defeat in Bhubaneshwar. It was surprising that a game which meandered on the third and fourth, with Gujarat crawling at two runs an over, ended in a result. Orissa once again found it tough to handle Mohnish Parmar, who bettered his first-innings 6 for 53 with figures of 6 for 51 – his best match-haul in first-class games.Overnight on 382 for 8, Gujarat could add only 12 to their total, with Timil Patel missing out on a half-century by two runs. Orissa’s openers progressed slowly as they played out nearly 17 overs, but wickets started to fall regularly once Amit Singh struck. Only the top order managed to stick around for a substantial amount of time at the crease in an innings which lasted 58.4 overs. Timil backed up Parmar with three wickets in his 14.4 overs.Gujarat captain Parthiv Patel said he was pleasantly surprised with Parmar’s performance on what looked to be a slow wicket. “We were keeping our fingers crossed, for we expected the Orissa batsmen to put up a good fight,” he told the .
ScorecardDelhi’s hopes of making the quarter-finals were over on the third day, and what could have been a gripping final day’s play turned out to be a slow end to a disappointing season for the defending champions. Allrounder Rajat Bhatia scored his first hundred of the tournament, and Pradeep Sangwan his maiden first-class fifty, as Delhi reached 688 after resuming on 505 for 5. A win was clearly not on Delhi’s minds: they started the day with a lead of 210 and played out 53.5 overs till they were bowled out. For Rajasthan, Pankaj Singh took three wickets to add to his scalp of Virat Kohli on Saturday.Delhi struck two early blows in Rajasthan’s second innings, which ended at 55 for 3 in 19 overs as the match finished in a draw.Vijay Dahiya, the Delhi coach, said the batsmen had gained valuable batting practice even though they had missed out on a place in the last eight. “We knew that we had no chance of reaching the quarterfinals, so we didn’t see any point in declaring,” he told the . “Even an outright win wouldn’t have been enough to overtake Saurashtra as they were way behind on run-quotient.”Tamil Nadu 475 for 6 dec (Mukund 162, KD Karthik 113, Ashwin 103*) and 389 for 7 dec (AB Karthik 107, Kumar 90, Ganapathy 53*) drew with Railways 314 (Goud 97, Cheluvaraj 65, Mahesh 4-90)
ScorecardTamil Nadu, who had opted against the follow-on on the third day, used the fourth for some valuable batting practice ahead of the quarter-finals. Opener Arun Karthik scored a century, and Suresh Kumar and C Ganapathy made half-centuries as the match ended with them declaring their second innings at 389 for 7.Karthik, overnight on 27, went on to his second first-class hundred in only his fourth game, hitting 17 fours in a 133-ball107. Suresh Kumar missed a maiden first-class ton, scoring a career-best 90 off 120 balls, with 11 fours and two sixes. The lower order then took the opportunity to score quick runs. C Ganapathy’s unbeaten 50-ball 53 was his first half-century, and Yo Mahesh made an equally brisk 47 before he was out stumped. The two put on 101 for the seventh wicket, the only century stand in the innings. Tamil Nadu, who finished on top of Group B, will meet Bengal, the qualifiers from the Plate League, in the quarter-finals.
ScorecardMumbai maintained their supremacy, thrashing Punjab by nine wickets in their final match of the group stage. Ajinkya Rahane and Wasim Jaffer swiftly overhauled the target of 149 before the stroke of lunch on the final day. Rahane added an unbeaten 82, to go along with his first-innings 80, and combined well with his captain as the undefeated 130-run second-wicket partnership extinguished Punjab’s hopes. (Read the full report.)Quarter-final line-up (December 26-29)
Gujarat v Uttar Pradesh in Vadodara
Mumbai v Himachal Pradesh in Ahmedabad
Saurashtra v Karnataka in Mumbai
Tamil Nadu v Bengal in Bangalore

A potential power-struggle is looming over the fate of England’s Test series in India as the team travels home following the terrorist atrocities that rocked Mumbai for three days. The squad is due to arrive at Heathrow on Saturday evening and have a very short time period to decide what to do next. The first Test is still scheduled to start in Ahmedabad on December 11 and there is an issue over where England would practice.Officials from both England and India are adamant that the Test series will go ahead, particularly after the BCCI agreed to shift the second Test from Mumbai to Chennai after a request from the ECB. According to Kevin Pietersen, however, the situation is not so cut-and-dry. If his team-mates have reservations about taking part, he will not be forcing them to re-join the tour.”We need to make sure the security’s right – but if it’s not safe then we won’t be coming back,” Pietersen said. “People are their own people, I’ll never force anyone to do anything or tell them to do anything against their will. On the field I may ask people to do things in a certain way but people run their own lives. We’ll have to see how the security is.”I do think the BCCI will make every single effort to get us back here playing Test-match cricket in India. There are TV rights and financial considerations and they run world cricket don’t they? But we will not come back to India if it’s not safe. My life means more to me than anything else and I won’t come back if it’s not safe.”Sean Morris, the chief executive of the Professional Cricketers’ Association, said the ultimate decision on the tour will rest with the ECB. “It won’t be down to the players, it’ll be down to the ECB ultimately, and we are comfortable with that,” he told Cricinfo. “We have worked very well with our board in the past, so we are confident of the processes involved and with the people who provide the information.”However, Morris insisted that there would be no extra pressure to reach a resolution despite the huge influence that India currently wields in world cricket. He confirmed that the security report will be compiled partly by the team’s security consultant, Reg Dickason, along with input from an independent body and cooperation from the board.There is the strong possibility of a weakened England side returning to India if players make individual decisions on whether to tour. There is a precedent for that, as following the 9/11 attacks in 2001 Robert Croft and Andrew Caddick opted out of the India tour.A spokesman for AKE Group, a leading UK-based security firm, told Cricinfo that the level of risk faced by the England team “should not be overstated”. He did, however, concede that the high-profile nature of the team, coupled with the fact that their itinerary is widely publicised, could be a justifiable cause for concern. “India is not Iraq, it is not a naturally hostile environment,” said the spokesman. “But Britain is a front runner in the war on terror, and therefore an attack on one of their sporting teams would be high political capital, and a fair strike, so to speak.”England are still scheduled to take part in a planned warm-up match in Baroda on December 5-7, which effectively means that the players will have no more than five days to reach a consensus and return to the country. The possibility is being discussed of England preparing in either Dubai or Abu Dhabi and then flying straight into India for the Test series.In the opinion of Michael Vaughan, the former England captain, there is little chance of England feeling safe enough to return to India in the foreseeable future. “It’s getting closer,” he wrote in his column. “I remember watching on TV a few weeks ago as the lorry-full of bombs went off at the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, where England were due to stay for the Champions Trophy, and thinking crikey, it’s getting close. Now it’s Mumbai, where the Middlesex players were due to stay on Thursday night. There seem to be these triggers, or warnings, that it is getting closer to cricket.”I didn’t think we were under threat in Bangalore,” Vaughan continued, “and history to date says cricketers are safe. But our security man said we couldn’t go in our England kit to the hotel where we eat 60 yards across the road from the stadium, and we’d have to go in cars, we couldn’t walk. We were told we couldn’t go to any of the hotels in Bangalore that westerners use.”Another former England captain, who preferred not to be named, told Cricinfo that he believed that the Test series would have to be postponed in the wake of the atrocities, although he predicted a tricky round of negotiations between the English and Indian boards before the matter could reach a conclusion. If previous political stand-offs were anything to go by, the two boards were likely to present conflicting security reports, with the players caught very much in the middle.One significant voice in support of the tour, however, is Michael Atherton, another former captain, who wrote in his column that he intended to travel for the Test series unless the Foreign Office advice changed in the meantime. “While it may seem inappropriate to say so right now, I hope the Test series in two weeks’ time can still go ahead,” he wrote. “One thing is for sure, however: since 9/11, much of the fun and spontaneity of watching sport has disappeared beneath an avalanche of security requirements. Sadly, sport, long regarded as a playground for those who want to abscond from the grim realities of daily life, is no longer immune.”

Match facts

November 16, 2008
Start time 7.30pm (1400 GMT)

The Big Picture

After plenty of drama and controversy last evening, the ICL finals are poised at 1-1 going in to the decider. A disputed catch led to tension and a rift between the two teams prompted Chris Harris, the Hyderabad Heroes captain and Steve Rixon, the coach, to murmur about the spirit of cricket in the post-match conference, which no one from the Lahore Badshahs attended. The dug outs exchanged angry words and the third final could be played in an edgy atmosphere with more than just the trophy at stake.Hyderabad stopped the Lahore juggernaut with disciplined bowling on a slow wicket. The batting promised much with Jimmy Maher setting the tempo with a breezy 31-ball 56 but they sleepwalked through the middle overs. Saqlain Mushtaq and Shahid Nazir brought Lahore back in to the game and it seemed they got one hand on the trophy when they restricted Hyderabad to 158. However, they couldn’t find any momentum with the bat and the usually free-flowing openers, Imran Nazir and Imran Farhat, struggled to get going and the virus spread to the middle order.Batting certainly won’t get any easier on a pitch which has gotten slower and the spinners will have a bigger role to play. That said, it’s up to the batsmen to pile on a score of at least 170 to feel safe.

Form guide (last five matches, most recent first)

Hyderabad- WLWWW
Lahore – LWWWW

Stats

• Imran has hit the most number of sixes (20) in the tournament and along with Farhat (15 sixes), form the most explosive opening pair in the tournament.
• Hyderabad have hit seven fifty-plus scores while Lahore have crossed fifty eight times. The respective bowling attacks too seem to be even. Naved-ul-Hasan (22 wickets) has done the job with the new ball, while Saqlain (15) and Shahid (10) have chipped in in the middle overs for Lahore. Abdul Razzaq (11 wickets) has attacked with the new ball but the Hyderabad spinners have really squeezed the opposition in the middle overs: The spinners, Nicky Boje and IS Reddy, have shared 30 wickets and Harris has picked 13.

Players to watch

Azhar Mahmood v Hyderabad: Mahmood was involved in a war of words with Rixon over the disputed catch at the boundary by Justin Kemp and he will strive to walk the talk tonight.Imran Nazir and Imran Farhat: Lahore will need their fiery openers to get their act together. They were strangely subdued yesterday.Chris Harris: His ‘dibbly dobbly’ bowling is still proving effective. He picked two vital middle-order wickets in the second final and Hyderabad will look to him again to put a stranglehold on the runs.Nicky Boje: One of Hyderabad’s highest run-getters strangely came in very late to bat in the second final. They might push him ahead of Kemp, who has had a horror series with the bat. Boje has combined well with Harris to pick wickets and made the opposition sweat in the middle overs.

Quotes

“With the wicket getting bit a slower, with our type of bowlers, I knew we could squeeze things in the middle.”
Chris Harris believes his spinners can do the job again.”The third umpire had given it out; the two on-field umpires gave it out. I won’t be surprised if there is some of hearing, if not, I would be very surprised.”
Harris wants Lahore to be penalized.

India’s recent performances against Australia have impressed Andrew Flintoff enough to call them “possibly the best team in the world at the moment”. Despite the retirement of Anil Kumble and Sourav Ganguly, Flintoff said it was going to be tough to overcome India at home.”The big test for us is adapting to the conditions we are going to play in,” Flintoff said in Mumbai. But he felt England were capable of winning their first Test series in India since 1984.”I thought we had a good chance last time. But one bad hour in Mohali cost us the Test match. We would like to correct that this time,” Flintoff said.England have been a force to reckon with over the last year, with home and away Test wins against New Zealand, their fightback in Sri Lanka where they bounced back to win the ODIs 3-2 and their 4-0 one-day rout of South Africa in the this summer.Flintoff returned to international cricket after an 18-month hiatus, having recovered from his fourth ankle injury. Even though he failed to transform England’s fortunes in the Test series against South Africa, which they lost 2-1, Flintoff left an indelible stamp by winning the Man-of-the-Series award in the ODI whitewash.”The big thing was to put the England shirt back on. Each time you have it on you want it back on time and time again. It is a big incentive to get back to full fitness and get back into the team,” Flintoff said.His ability to inspire his team-mates was evident during England’s last tour of India, in 2006, when the visitors rallied to draw the Test series 1-1 with a brilliant victory in the third Test in Mumbai. However, they lost the ODIs 5-1. He was appointed the captain mid-way into the tour after Michael Vaughan’s knee injury forced him to return home.Flintoff felt he was performing and enjoying himself because of the lack of responsibilities, something that was proving to be a burden when he was the captain. “I’m more comfortable now. I have had a go at captaincy. Batting and bowling and captaincy turned out a bit too much.” Now his role is to help out the younger players.England play the first of the two practice games on Sunday, against a second-string Mumbai XI, at the Brabourne Stadium, which will host a Test after 35 years when England and India meet for the Jubilee Test in December. Flintoff was happy to have had prior experience at the ground. “I played there for the Lions when we toured in March,” he said. “It’s a nice stadium.”India have rested Sachin Tendulkar from the first three ODIs but Flintoff did not feel his absence would give England an advantage. “Not at all. It is a shame Sachin will not be there for the first three ODIs. In a strange way I enjoy playing against him. He is the greatest I have ever bowled to. You want to play against people like that. You want to test yourself.”With the series still a week away Flintoff was relaxed and even joked with the media. On the topic of Ganguly, a fierce competitor and former team-mate at Lancashire, Flintoff said he was disappointed when the former Indian captain missed out on a century in his farewell Test in Nagpur. Would he miss him? “Not on these wickets,” Flintoff chuckled.Both Ganguly and Flintoff have celebrated victories by taking their shirts off – Flintoff in India in 2001 and Ganguly in England the following year – but Flintoff wasn’t sure if he would repeat the act in this series. “We will have to find some abs in the next few weeks,” he said.He was not so forthcoming – or flippant – on the subject of IPL. Asked if he believed the players would try to make a reputation on tour in India, which has become the game’s economic hub, Flintoff was dismissive. “If you think about distractions like the IPL, endorsements, media attention and stuff, you are going to struggle.”

Scorecard

South Australia’s top order made a slow and steady start after Andrew McDonald guided Victoria to a hefty first-innings total of 6 for 473. At the close, South Australia had chipped away at the deficit and had 1 for 110 with Tom Plant, in his first state game for 18 months, on 48 and Michael Klinger on 31.On a flat pitch offering little for the fast bowlers, Victoria resumed on 2 for 352 but could their middle order could not dominate to quite the extent the top three had on the first day. Shaun Tait picked up a couple of first-class wickets, including David Hussey for 8, that will boost his confidence as he continues his return.Brad Hodge added four to his overnight total before he was out for 104 to become Paul Rofe’s third victim. However, Victoria’s strong platform allowed McDonald (60) and Rob Quiney, who finished unbeaten on 45, to nudge the score in the 500-direction before the declaration came.But South Australia found batting almost as easy as Victoria. The Bushrangers had no luck trying to uproot Plant, who occupied the crease for nearly four hours for his 48. Klinger was also looming as a threat in his first Sheffield Shield match against his former state.

Graham Ford has admitted that he will be interviewed later this week for the post of New Zealand coach.Ford, who is Kent’s director of cricket, had previously denied reports linking him with the role, but on Wednesday he told the Kent Messenger that he had been offered an interview by New Zealand Cricket. He advised Kent’s chief executive Paul Millman on Monday.The interview, which will be conducted over the telephone, will involve another former Kent coach, John Wright, as well as other members of the NZC board.Ford told the newspaper that he was “very happy with the set-up” at Kent but wanted to see what NZC had to offer. “It would be a massive step in my life and at this point it’s unlikely that it’s something that I’d be charging off to do. Certainly I have no firm feelings at this point of wanting to head off in any other direction.”