Pakistan will travel to Dublin this week to play a couple of One-Day Internationals (ODI) in Ireland this week. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
Pakistan will travel to Dublin this week to play a couple of One-Day Internationals (ODI) in Ireland this week. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), which is striving to bring back international action in the country, has asked the CI for a reciprocal visit, a call that received a positive heed.
The CI’s Chief Executive Officer Warren Deutrom showed interest in sending the team to Pakistan.
“The PCB has proved to be a very strong supporter,” he told the Sunday Independent. “They have agreed to play here on a number of occasions over the last few years, for which we are incredibly grateful.
“They have asked us whether we would consider a reciprocal visit, and I have told the PCB that we would be willing to contemplate this, provided that we could have the requisite comfort levels around safety and security levels during our time there.”
Published in The Express Tribune, May 20th, 2013.
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We will hear only good news now, Insha-Allah.
Pakistan wants to host international cricket again, while Ireland wants to become a full member of the ICC by 2020. The two countries have a lot to gain from co-operating with each other.
@sm:
Ok first of all, chill out!
That's the whole point! no one is now, there were days when ppl loved playing cricket in pakistan and its not the same any more and I don't see that happening in near future either. As a result of this, regardless how much we talent we claim we got, if this goes on cricket would actually become a dying art here. Every time we try getting some team in, they back out. When I said force, what I meant was that if one board agrees to consider, others would throw in statements that would make them go as much reluctant as one can be. thats all!
@Usman:
marvelous, absolutely marvelous. So, how many teams have been threatened by that "force" to not to tour Pakistan? As if the English, the Australians,the south Africans,the Kiwi's etc etc were always dying to tour Pakistan, and that "force" is desperately trying to keeping them out.
It's nice to see someone wish to visit Pakistan for a series even though Ireland team is not upto the international mark but it will benefit Pakistani cricket if team start coming in Pakistan
Its the welcome sign of international cricket in Pakistan....hopefully we will have 5 ODI's and T20's with full of excitement and thrill.
Thank you CI! We need that! There have already been major conspiracies going on and its a fact that there is definitely a force out there that isn't letting Pakistan revive cricket at home. Kindly Help. Much Appreciated.