26 November,2015 08:31 AM IST | | PTI
The much talked-about India-Pakistan series could be played out in two parts with Sri Lanka hosting the limited-overs games next month and England being the venue for Test matches next year
Shashank Manohar
Karachi: The much talked-about India-Pakistan series could be played out in two parts with Sri Lanka hosting the limited-overs games next month and England being the venue for Test matches next year.
Shashank Manohar
Speculation is rife that the arrangement has been agreed upon during a meeting of BCCI President Shashank Manohar and Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Shaharyar Khan in Dubai but a formal announcement is yet to come through.
"PCB Chairman Shaharyar Khan has sought permission of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the foreign ministry to play a limited-overs series with India in Sri Lanka next month," a source in the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination told PTI.
He said Shaharyar had also indicated that India was willing to also play some Tests against Pakistan next year. "The plan is that Pakistan would tour India in 2017 for a full series while before that India will play us in two phases. Indications are that the Tests will be held in England in summer," he said.
Pakistan is due to tour England for a full series from July onwards and in 2010 played two Tests against Australia at the Lord's and Headingly with considerable success due to the large South Asian population in the United Kingdom.
Another source in the PCB said that the President of the England and Wales cricket board Giles Clarke, who acted as a mediator when Manohar and Shaharyar Khan met in Dubai at the weekend, had pitched the idea of having the Tests in England.
