Future tours programme: Pakistan to tour India in 2012
The two archrivals could play three Tests and five ODIs in March and April 2012.
MUMBAI:
Pakistan have been pencilled in to tour India for a full series of Test and One-Day Internationals (ODI) next year, in what would be a breakthrough in relations that were hit by the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The ICC’s latest Future Tours Programme shows that the two archrivals could play three Tests and five ODIs in March and April 2012. India are designated as the host of the series, but an ICC spokesman told AFP that the list was provisional and indicated that the matches were likely to be played at a neutral venue.
Any series would be organised entirely by both countries’ governing bodies, he added. No one was immediately available for comment at the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
The last time Pakistan played a Test match in India was in December 2007 and apart from the World Cup semi-final, the last ODI on Indian soil was in November 2007.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 1st, 2011.
Pakistan have been pencilled in to tour India for a full series of Test and One-Day Internationals (ODI) next year, in what would be a breakthrough in relations that were hit by the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The ICC’s latest Future Tours Programme shows that the two archrivals could play three Tests and five ODIs in March and April 2012. India are designated as the host of the series, but an ICC spokesman told AFP that the list was provisional and indicated that the matches were likely to be played at a neutral venue.
Any series would be organised entirely by both countries’ governing bodies, he added. No one was immediately available for comment at the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
The last time Pakistan played a Test match in India was in December 2007 and apart from the World Cup semi-final, the last ODI on Indian soil was in November 2007.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 1st, 2011.