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India-Pakistan to resume cricketing ties after 5 years
Monday July 16, 2012 05:57:42 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Sub-continental cricketing ties, suspended in the wake of the
26/11 Mumbai attack, will resume after five years when Pakistan
tours India in December-January for playing playing three One-dayers
and two Twenty20 internationals.
The matches will be played in between England's November-January
series in India when the tourists return home for 15 days for the
Christmas break, according to an agreement between the Board of
Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Pakistan Cricket Board
(PCB).
Briefing the media after the meeting, BCCI spokesman Rajiv Shukla
said New Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai are the venues for the ODIs
and Bangalore and Ahmedabad will host the T20 matches.
The series will be played when England go back home for the
Christmas break after playing four Tests and two T20 matches in
November-December and before they return for the five-match
one-day series in January.
The two countries last played in 2007-8 when Pakistan toured
India. India were to play in Pakistan in 2009 but the tour was
cancelled in the wake of the Mumbai terror attack in 2008.
"It was decided to resume cricketing ties with Pakistan by
inviting the Pakistan cricket team for a short series in December
2012-January 2013. The modalities will be worked out shortly,"
said BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale in a statement released after
the Board's working committee meeting here Monday.
Reacting to the BCCI's announcement, PCB chief Zaka Ashraf told
the Pakistani media that it was a welcome step.
"I am glad this has come through," Ashraf said.
"Negotiations were on for quite sometime and both the boards
worked hard to make it happen. It is certainly a good news even
from the business point of view."
Ashraf said the first step towards resuming the tie was inviting
Pakistan T20 Champions Sialkot Stallions for the Champions League.
"Stallions were invited. That was the first step. Now this is a
further development. It is good that two rivals are back playing
together," said the PCB chief.
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