The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has written to the BCCI asking about December's scheduled bilateral series between India and Pakistan, according to NDTV.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has written to the BCCI asking about December's scheduled bilateral series between India and Pakistan, according to NDTV.
BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur had recently said that the series would not go ahead. "Dawood in Karachi. NSA wants to meet separatists here. Are you really serious about peace and you expect we'll play cricket with you?" Thakur had said on Twitter.
"Politics is vulnerable to highs and lows and the sport of cricket should be kept away from it," Pakistan newspaper The Express Tribune quoted PCB chief Shahryar Khan as saying. "Cricket is a tool to formulate peace between the countries," he added.
The BCCI had signed an MOU to play Pakistan in six series between 2015 and 2023, with the first to be hosted by the PCB in the UAE in December. But BCCI has not been forthcoming on the proposed series largely due to political implications. The two boards had also differed over television broadcast rights. Now, the Home Ministry's nod will be the factor that decides the fate of the series.
But Shahryar Khan has rejected ideas that PCB is desperate to play India because of the money involved. "It's not that we can't survive without playing them," Shaharyar told Cricinfo last week. "We are surviving, and can survive, but our position is that the game shouldn't be mixed up with the politics. So we are trying to get the series revived based on the MOU they have signed with us. They have to honour it and if they don't it's their responsibility."
Pakistan and India have not played a full bilateral Test series since 2007 although Pakistan did tour India in 2012-13 for a short series.
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