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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

PCB trying to convince ICC''s members to send team to Pakistan

"For us it is a matter of taking small steps at a time to convince the cricket world that despite the security issues Pakistan is capable of hosting international teams safely," he added.
Sources said the PCB planned to convince other boards to send their junior and second-string teams to Pakistan on regular basis during the ICC executive board meeting scheduled in June in Hong Kong. "The PCB officials will be meeting with other board officials on the sidelines of the board meeting to get them to send their junior and A teams to Pakistan. In this sense the visit by the Afghanistan team is a big plus point for us," one source said. While the Pakistan senior team has a packed international calender until mid next year and are content playing their "home" matches at neutral venues, the source said the PCB wanted to revive some unofficial international cricket in Pakistan as well. PTI