But Greg Chappell supported Lillee, a position at odds with almost all the local media and much of the public. "If we thought he had been responsible in the first place for what happened, we'd have had no hesitation in rubbing him out," Chappell said, before trotting out a catalogue of previous clashes between the two countries as self justification. "What Miandad did," he wrote, "was the most disgraceful thing I have seen on a cricket pitch." He even suggested that it had all been part of a plot by Pakistan to entrap Lillee..

I do question his decision to have his daughters skip two days of school so that he might golf and play more basketball in the sun. Even more so, I question Sidwell's putting up with it. Were I the headmaster, I'd send on a friendly note to the Obamas saying that when family vacation plans take precedence over their childrens' education, then, perhaps, the parents might need to look for a more accommodating school.

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