Lahore, August 21 (TNS): Pakistan cricketing board on Monday announced the doors international cricket opened after years of isolation as three separate sides scheduled to visit the cricket-deprived country.
Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Najam Sethi said on Monday that 15 players from seven countries have agreed to visit Pakistan as part of the World XI squad set to play a three-match T20 series in Lahore next month.
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Sethi, addressing a press conference, said, “Players from England, New Zealand, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe have agreed to play the World XI tournament in Pakistan. India, however, has declined to send its players.”
He said after World XI tour in September, Sri Lanka would come for a Twenty20 match in October, then a Twenty20 series against the West Indies a month later.
“We are getting positive signals and the doors of international cricket are opening on Pakistan,” Najam Sethi said.
The tours are seen as a big step towards Pakistan once again hosting major international outfits after militants targeted the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in 2009, killing eight people and wounding at least seven players.
But security has dramatically improved across Pakistan in the last two years, signalling hopes for the slow revival of international sport in the country.
In March, Pakistan successfully hosted the PSL final in Lahore with English players Dawid Malan and Chris Jordan, West Indies Darren Sammy and Marlon Samuels and South Africa s Morne van Wyk and Zimbabwe s Sean Ervine competing.
The match s success pushed the PCB to expedite efforts to convince more teams to play in Pakistan.
“We will play a full series with Sri Lanka in the UAE after which Sri Lanka will come to Lahore for a Twenty20, so things are shaping up,” said the PCB boss.
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Pakistan cricket team’s Head Coach Mickey Arthur has shown great interest in the series and hopes that the tour of the World XI will bring Pakistan a step closer to reviving international cricket.
