LAHORE – Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan admired the exotic spirit showed by fans since international cricket returned after a six-year bar, promising to gradually attract more teams to compete in the country.
Shaharyar said the response was great and the crowd was magnificent. It would keep building gradually, he added. The PCB chief said the International Cricket Council (ICC) had been in touch.
“Giles Clarke (former chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board) and ICC chairman Narayanaswami Srinivasan phoned me and congratulated me on the revival of cricket in Pakistan,” he said.
“Sri Lankan interim committee chief Sidath Wettimuny will come to see the matches and we are also waiting on the response from Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Anurag Thakur’s response on an invitation to tour Pakistan.”
“Karachi, Faisalabad, Multan, Mirpur and Muzaffarabad are good venues and we can have proper series with Test matches included, likely next year.”
Shaharyar said the ICC Board meeting in Barbados next month will be informed about the progress on matches in Pakistan.
“We will show a documentary of the Zimbabwe tour in the ICC Board meeting and hopefully perceptions about Pakistan will change gradually,” he said. The PCB boss said Pakistan is inclined to play India in the United Arab Emirates, and not in India.
“No one from India has suggested us to play the December (this year) series in India. It was agreed in the Memorandum of Understanding that the series will be played in the UAE and that is the final situation,” he said.
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