There's a bigger story out there than the fact that Pakistan is playing its first test in 14 months and hosting its first for 16.

Even bigger than Umar Gul's wicket in the first over of the series.

It is the two umpires standing in this test match.

Its two AUSTRALIANS!!!

Simon Taufel and Steve Davis.

My my how did Cricket Australia and the ICC allow that? Or even that player's association that Tim May runs?

And what exactly is the message that these "authorities" are giving here?

To me it says that the lives of Simon Taufel and Steve Davis are not as valuable as those of the Australian international cricketers.

Why else would neither the Australian Government, nor its cricket board, nor its cricketers association have a problem with two Australian umpires visiting a country with "severe security issues".

What's more is that I don't think Taufel or Davis even had an issue with this.

Maybe the Australian cricketers need to learn a thing or two from these men.