Now that India has refused to tour Pakistan.
PCB has to fill in a gap of six months in its playing calender.
Steps are being taken in the right direction and Srilanka is being invited in place of India.
It’s yet to be seen how PCB will retaliate against BCCI for not honoring their commitment.
Ijaz Butt took a briefing from Asif Ali Zardari last week and PCB’s policy for touring India will soon be announced.
Pakistan should not send it’s players to IPL/ICL.
It should lift all the bans on ICL players.
All support of BCCI in ICC meetings should be cut off.
These measures should remain in effect until BCCI comes back to it’s senses.
Meanwhile this crisis should be taken as an opportunity and PCB should reorganize domestic cricket and should work seriously on PPL.
Certainly UTP
They should be accorded a warm welcome,financially PCB could have gained more if the Indian team had come but if we remember the recent performance of Srilanka in India, cricket wise we will get more exciting matches.
Sri Lanka really deserves a warm welcome…they have done what no one did…bring em home…for some cricket…
Also, now Pakistan will have to seriously consider touring more often than play at home and also matches be arranged to play in Abu Dhabi for some of the countries where security is seen as a concern. That might be the way forward to start with.
Two things Wasim,
This is not a BCCI decision but rather the Indian government. No board in the world can go ahead when the government doesn’t give the nod.
Second, like you said, the positives might be that those who were for moving away from the existing relationships now have the opportunity to move away.
Cheers
The current adminstration of PCB comprise of experienced and shrewed people I know they will be able to keep the Pakistan team busy and they will also make BCCI to regret their decision.
KARACHI: Sri Lankan cricket authorities have confirmed their tour to Pakistan in January and February, a Pakistan Cricket Board official told Reuters on Friday.
Pakistan had invited Sri Lanka to play three tests, three one-day internationals and a Twenty20 game after the Indian government refused to permit its team to undertake their test tour of Pakistan from next month.
‘Sri Lanka has agreed in principle to tour for the series. We are now working out the final details of the tour with them,’ Saleem Altaf, the chief operating officer of the
PCB told Reuters.
Altaf said the President of the Sri Lankan board, Arjuna Ranatunga, had sent his consent for the tour after Pakistan invited them for the unscheduled series.
‘Sri Lanka will travel to Pakistan straight from Bangladesh where their tour ends in the third week of January,’ Altaf said.
He said Sri Lanka would start off with a Twenty20 game and one-dayer in Karachi and then play two one-dayers and a test in Lahore.
‘The second test would be in Lahore and the final one in Karachi,’ he added.
Pakistan is hoping to generate much needed revenues from the Sri Lanka series after they suffered a setback due to the cancellation of the Indian team’s tour and have not played a test since December 2007.
‘Obviously the cancellation of the Indian series is a setback especially in financial terms,’ Altaf said.
The PCB official said the board would soon be holding a meeting to take some policy decisions on the participation of Pakistani players in the Twenty20 leagues in India.
‘It is something we need to look at because of the existing relations between the two countries and the fact that India has decided not to have cricket ties with us at the moment,’ he added.
Around 30 Pakistani cricketers, many of them members of the current national side, are signed up to play for the official Indian Premier League and the rebel Indian Cricket League.