India Pakistan Bilateral Series May Find its Possible Venue at Sri Lanka

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A recent report by ESPN reported that Sri Lanka can be the neutral venue for the India and Pakistan. The speculations came out after a meeting held at ICC Headquarter on Sunday 22nd November, in which cricket board head of both the country met each other. The primary focus of meeting was to break deadlock on series comprising five matches (3 ODI and T20).

The meeting which took place at International Cricket Board headquarter, was also attended by English Cricket Board Chief Giles Clarke, along with BCCI head Shashank Manohar and PCB’s executive Committee head Najam Sethi.

However, there is no official confirmation on holding bilateral series on Sri Lankan soil. Whereas according to ICC schedule Pakistan is to host India in the UAE for a full tour comprising Two Test, Five ODIs and Two T20s, later this year. But Indian board has already ruled out the option of playing with Pakistan in UAE.

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On the other hand Shahryar Khan, President of Pakistan Cricket Board has indicated that the series is not completely ruled out, saying that “We had a fruitful meeting in which Sethi was there, Clarke was there as facilitator, it was a fruitful meeting and the decision is that Clarke will brief the media tomorrow.”

Prior to this, Shashank Manohar in his statement to a National Newspaper said that “We have not received any reply from PCB on proposal to play the series in India.” He further added that “We want to play in India. That is the thing. Presently, we gave an option to Pakistan asking them whether they will come to India. Pakistan was to get back to me; they haven’t got back to me. So I don’t know what the position is.”

In the series of statements flooded into media after a political conflicts aroused from both the countries over seize fire violation. PCB Chief maintained that Pakistan will not play in India, rather team will be more comfortable in playing in UAE as agreed under the MoU signed a year later.

If it does go ahead it would be the first between the two countries since 2007. As India called off most sporting fixtures between the rivals after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which it says were planned by militants in Pakistan.

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