The Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Najam Sethi is hopeful of more countries agreeing to play international cricket here when he meets Board officials of other nations at the International Cricket Council meeting in Kolkata later this month.
“The ICC meeting will be an important platform for us to talk to other board officials and try to convince them to send teams to Pakistan for bilateral series,” Sethi said. The ICC meeting in Kolkata from April 22-26 is expected to give final touches to the new Future Tours Program to run from 2019.
“The good thing is that Giles Clarke who heads the ICC’s Special Task Force on Pakistan Cricket will also be briefing the ICC Board members on the return of international cricket to Pakistan,” Sethi said.
With two home series lined up against Australia and New Zealand in the UAE later this year, Sethi said slowly and surely the time would come when even top teams will come to Pakistan. He said the ICC meeting would also be a platform to assess the mood of the Indian Board officials on cricketing bilateral relations with Pakistan, which remain suspended since 2008.
