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No more international cricket at neutral venues for Pakistan: Ehsan Mani
[DAWN] Pakistain will no longer look for neutral venues to stage home international cricket matches."The onus will be on the other teams to tell us why they can't play in Pakistain," Pakistain Cricket Board chairman Ehsan Mani told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Tuesday. Ummm... Searching for the right words to descibed thast statement... Oh, yeah. "Arrogant bastards." That about covers it. "Our default position will remain that Pakistain is safe. We play cricket in Pakistain (and if) you want to play against Pakistain you have to come to Pakistain." Pakistain's decade-long isolation from hosting test cricket ends on Wednesday when Sri Lanka will play at Pindi Cricket Stadium. The second test will be in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... from December 19-23. The series is part of the world Test championship. Sri Lanka was the last team to play a test in Pakistain in 2009. Terrorists attacked the teams bus in Lahore and eight people were killed. Several Sri Lanka players and team officials were maimed. The ambush shut the door on international cricket in Pakistain. The PCB organised almost all of its home matches in the United Arab Emirates. In the last four years, the PCB staged short limited-overs tours against the likes of Zim-bob-we, the West Indies, Sri Lanka and a World XI to show the cricket world it could host tours safely. Sri Lanka agreed to play two test matches in Pakistain only after it visited Karachi and Lahore three months ago and played an incident-free series of one-day internationals and Twenty20s. Posted by: Fred 2019-12-11 |
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