‘Keeping calm’: Aussie presenter Erin Holland holed up in hotel amid India-Pakistan conflict
Erin Holland is nervously awaiting news of when she can leave Islamabad amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan.
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TV presenter and former Miss World Australia Erin Holland has been caught up in the escalating conflict between India and Pakistan.
Holed up in her hotel room in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, Holland, who is in the country covering the Pakistan Super League (PSL), told The Daily Telegraph she is ready to leave at a moment’s notice.
“I am just trying to keep calm and control the controllables and at the moment it is sit tight,” she said.
“I have got my bags packed ready to go. We just don’t know what is happening and when we are going. At the moment it is a ‘maybe’.”
While she can’t see anything from her hotel room, Holland said, “there’s a lot of air action”.
Holland is working alongside cricket commentator and former cricketer Lisa Sthalekar and five Australians play in the league, including former Australian vice-captain David Warner, Max Bryant, Riley Meredith, Sean Abbott, Mitch Owen and Ben Dwarshuis.
The remainder of the PSL will be played in Dubai as tensions between the neighbouring countries continue to intensify, however Holland will need to leave on a chartered plane as the airspace above Pakistan is now closed.
Australian cricketers playing across the border in India are desperately trying to get home after the Indian Premier League (IPL) was suspended.
Aussies Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head and Mitch Marsh, Josh Inglis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Marcus Stoinis, Aaron Hardie, Xavier Bartlett and Mitch Owen have all been involved in this year’s IPL and are reportedly trying to make their way out. Australian coaches Brad Haddin and Ricky Ponting are also set to return home.
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