And suddenly, a car razed a group of people in what was dubbed as a “deliberate act” by the police. Around 15 people were injured and the ICC were furious by the country’s lack of security. How on earth could such an act happen during a Test series of such a gargantuan magnitude?

As a result, that country was banned from hosting international game until further notice, which probably means close to a hundred years.

But that’s not what happen, at least not all of it.

Yes, a car ran over a horde of people in Melbourne  and yes it was labeled as an act with full malicious intent. And yes, around 15 people did get injured. However, what didn’t happen is the ICC getting upset part. They are actually not furious because the country where this incident took place wasn’t one of the third-world countries like Pakistan or Bangladesh.

This happened in Australia—a supposed safe haven.

No player got inflicted with injuries—and we can thank the skies for that—but there is a sense of gripping hypocrisy that could be found behind the nebulous fog, hidden somewhere deep inside a crevice, that shrouds the bitter and harsh truth: no country is 100% safe from a potential disaster.

When then president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, visited Bangladesh, he was welcomed with a crude bomb that went off near his hotel in 2013. A lot of things were said about the country’s apparent lack of security back then.

And it hurt the cricket, too.

Then came the 2016 terrorist attack at the Holy Artisan Bakery in Gulshan, Dhaka, that shook the entire country. The Australia cricket team were reluctant to come to Bangladesh and play cricket with the host nation because they were worried about potential attacks.

As if.

But no-one is worried now, is it?

No-one will claim that Australia have a lack of proper security. No-one will claim the same for England despite the fact that there have been at least two separate terror attacks in the country this year. No-one will claim that—and no-one should either.

No country is safe from such events. None. Be it America—where a person has more chances to die from the bullets of a deranged white man than any other country in the world—or Australia.

And today’s incident only further proves that. So it is absurd to entire label a country for some isolated incidents and defame them for it

There is a subtle racism going on in here. I know it, you know it—everyone knows it. If a bomb goes off in a third-world country, then the media backlash will ensure that the country is forever stained with the tag of being unsafe for visit.

Heck, if what happened today in Melbourne happened anywhere near the streets of Mirpur in Dhaka, all the international cricketing activities would have been stopped and England would have flown back to the country the very same night—even though Bangladesh have one of the best security forces in the world , which is always depicted when a team visits the country to play cricket.

But now England  won’t do that—even if they want to after being thrashed by the Aussies thus far—simply because the incident happened in Australia.