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Going by the recent track record of the Australian and South African cricket teams that would appear to be the case.

Unless of course things are different when it comes to playing in the Indian Premier League as against representing your country!

It may be recalled that Cricket Australia cancelled last month's scheduled tour of Pakistan following a series of bomb blasts there.

That enabled Andrew Symonds [Images], who openly expressed his reluctance to tour Pakistan, Brett Lee , Matthew Hayden  Ricky Ponting  and others to play in the early matches in the IPL before they were called away for national duty in the West Indies.

In fact, Australia have not visited Pakistan for a full series since 1994-95.

In 2002 the two countries played a Test series in the neutral venue of Sharjah following the 9/11 attacks in the United States and the subsequent US attack on Afghanistan.

South Africa, with Smith in charge, too abandoned a tour of Sri Lanka  in 2006 after bomb blasts there.

Back in 1996 Australia and the West Indies refused to play their World Cup matches in Colombo after a devastating bomb attack killed hundreds in the Lankan capital.

Both teams forfeited their points but Australia reached the final in Lahore where ironically they were beaten by Sri Lanka.

However, the Australian team decided to stay on in England after the terrorist attacks on buses and trains that struck London at the start of the Ashes series in July 2005. Only Jason Gillespie among the tourists publicly made a statement expressing his apprehensions.

Rajasthan Royals are currently on the top of IPL points table after beating Delhi Daredevils in Jaipur on Sunday.

They now have 14 points from nine matches, losing just two and remain the only team to have won all five of their matches at their Jaipur "fortress" as Warne describes the Sawai Man Singh stadium.

Two points behind Rajasthan are Punjab XI Kings and Chennai Super Kings.

Currently Warne and his boys are enjoying a well-deserved five day break in Goa  before their next game at home on Saturday against bottom-placed Bangalore Royal Challengers.

Warne is of course retired from international cricket and has no connections with his national body, Cricket Australia.

Apart from Warne and Smith, the other foreign players in the squad are Sohail Tanveer, Kamran Akmal and Younis Khan of Pakistan, Morne Morkel of South Africa and Warne's fellow-countryman Shane Watson.

Dmitri Mascarenhas, the lone Englishman in the IPL went back home after Sunday's match.

The serial blasts in Jaipur may take its toll on the ongoing multi-million dollar Indian Premier League as Australian stars Shane Warne [Images] and Shane Watson and South African Graeme Smith [Images] are considering quitting the tournament, according to media reports.

Rajasthan Royals' Warne, Watson, Smith and team manager Darren Berry -- now holidaying in Goa [Images] -- are very scared after the incident and are refusing to return to Jaipur. They are even considering leaving India altogether.

"(There's) a real option of getting on the plane and getting out of here. We are not comfortable at all. This is an extremely uncomfortable situation," Berry was quoted as saying by Macquarie National News.

Berry said his family members in Australia were concerned about his safety in India.

"Cricket has been good to me, but I have a wife and three kids back in Melbourne and they are less than impressed with the part of the world I am in."

Berry said Warne was also worried due to the bomb blasts that killed more than 60 people in the Pink City.

"I was talking to Warnie and asked, 'If this blast had occurred a day before we were due to fly over here, would we still have come?', he said there was no way we would have come.

"It is terrifying. To think I was standing in the exact location the bombs went off only two days ago...it was a couple of kilometres from the team hotel.

"The whole country has gone into lockdown."

Rajasthan Royals are next meeting Bangalore Royal Challengers in their home leg encounter on May 17 and although IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has assured that extra security will be put in place for the tie, Berry is anxious about the evening.

"That is the part that scares me.

"These games are getting big crowds.

"People over here tell me this has nothing to do with cricket, it is political ...but if some people are prepared to cause this type of damage, detonating bombs in peak-hour to harm the most number of people possible...50,000 people come to the stadium to watch the games," Berry said.