DUBAI: Chairman of England Wales Cricket Board Charles Giles Clarke has called up an emergency meeting with Heads of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in Dubai.
Clarke is playing a mediator role between both the boards.
The one-agenda meeting will discuss MoU signed between PCB and BCCI.
After the meting, series between Pakistan and India may likely to happen on a neutral meeting.
PCB chief Shaharyar Khan said England supported the resumption of bilateral ties between India and Pakistan stalled for seven years due to strained relations.
Pakistan and India are scheduled to play two Tests, five one-day and two Twenty20 matches in United Arab Emirates (UAE) next month but the series is under serious doubt after a deadlock between the two boards.
BCCI last week invited Pakistan to play the matches on their grounds but the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) insisted the series should be held in UAE, under the Memorandum of Understanding signed last year.
The six series between 2015 to 2023 — four to be hosted by Pakistan — were all subject to clearance from the respective governments.
PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan said England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) president Giles Clarke is also supporting the series.
“Former ECB chairman Giles Clarke (now president of the ECB) is also making an effort (for India-Pakistan series) and he is also of the opinion that the series should be held for the interest of cricket,” Khan told media on the sidelines of fourth day-night international between Pakistan and England.
“Clarke believes that a Pakistan-India series is vital for the game and he is also talking to the BCCI chief and I have told him that he has no need to convince us, convince the BCCI.”
Khan said the Indo-Pak series is now a matter for Islamabad to decide with Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif directing the PCB not to take any decision without the government s advice.
“Now the matter is political because the advice from the PM is that the final decision will be made by the government only. We have put that before the BCCI,” said Khan, a former foreign secretary.
“We always wanted this series to happen right from the start, If India is not accepting what they have signed in the MoU then if doesn t happen then so be it.”
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