Cricket fans in India and Pakistan will be exited with the recent developments as BCCI president Shashank Manohar is open to discussing the issue with Pakistan Cricket Board in the forthcoming ICC annual general meeting in Dubai .
The Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) seems to have not lost all the hope of hosting Pakistan in the next month’s proposed India-Pakistan bilateral series in India.
Despite the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shahryar Khan ruling out the possibility playing Pakistan in India, the BCCI president Shashank Manohar is likely to take up the issue when he makes his first visit as chairman to the ICC office in Dubai later this week .
Manohar was made the chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in place of N Srinivasan at Board’s annual general meeting on November 9.
It is learnt that the former England and Wales Cricket Board chief Giles Clarke, who is also the head of the ICC’s Pakistan Task Force, might play the mediator between the two boards and will try to persuade PCB chief to allow the team to tour India.
Last week, the PCB claimed that BCCI has invited their team to play its ‘home’ series in India next month but their Indian counterparts said no such formal proposal has been made yet.
PCB Chairman Shahryar Khan told the media in Lahore that he was given a formal proposal by his Indian counterpart Shashank Manohar during a phone call on Friday.
BCCI President Manohar, however, told PTI that they have not even approached the government yet for clearance yet and any statement to this effect was not correct.
Cricket fans in both countries can only hope to see the issues being resolved by both boards .