London, Sep 27 (PTI) England and Wales Cricket Board has informally provided to be the hosts if India and Pakistan plan to play a bilateral Test collection however BCCI sources mentioned possibilities of that occuring in close to future is “next to nil”.
The UK each day ‘Telegraph’ reported that “Martin Darlow, the deputy chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, has held talks with the Pakistan Cricket Board during the current Twenty20 series and offered England’s grounds as venues for ideally a three-match Test series in future.”
While the ECB has made the supply for its personal business positive factors, the powers that be within the BCCI laughed off the recommendations and mentioned that no such prospects would possibly come up at the least in subsequent few years.
“Firstly, ECB spoke to PCB about an Indo-Pak collection and that’s a bit bizarre. In any case, a collection towards Pakistan is just not one thing that the BCCI will determine however it’s the resolution of the federal government.
As of now, the stance stays the identical. We solely play Pakistan at multi-team occasions,” a senior BCCI official aware of India’s place informed PTI on Tuesday.
India and Pakistan final performed a brief bilateral white-ball collection again in 2012 in India and the final Test collection dates again to 2007.
With the tense political relations between the neighbours, it’s a large ‘No’ from BCCI no matter whether or not it’s performed at dwelling, away or a impartial venue.
The newspaper states exactly the rationale why ECB made the “generous offer”.
“The matches would attract big crowds in the UK, which has a large ex-pat south Asian population,” it mentioned.
“The matches attract huge sponsorship revenue and television audiences.” However, the paper made it clear that even “PCB is not keen on playing India at neutral venue but are grateful for the ECB’s offer, which shows the growing relationship between the two boards.” It said that with the large nations once more beginning to tour Pakistan, it is going to be a “retrograde step in their eyes” in the event that they occur to play on a impartial venue.
