Australian cricketers scramble as India-Pakistan tensions escalate

Many Australian cricketers are attempting to quickly get back home amid increasing tensions between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan. Reports have surfaced that the Indian Premier League could be postponed and Australian cricketers playing in the Pakistan Super League were having "critical meetings" overnight about plans to flee that country. It is the worst confrontation in more than two decades between the two countries and world powers have called for calm in one of the most dangerous, and most populated, nuclear flashpoint regions. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Meanwhile, Ricky Ponting's soaring Punjab Kings have been…