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  • NZ’s tour of Pakistan topic to safety clearance after Taliban takeover of Afghanistan

    New Zealand will go forward with its tour of Pakistan topic to a clearance from safety marketing consultant Reg Dickason after some Kiwi gamers expressed considerations about touring the nation following Taliban’s takeover of neighbouring Afghanistan.
    New Zealand are on account of attain Islamabad on September 11 to play three ODIs and 5 T20 Internationals in Rawalpindi and Lahore till October 3.
    However, New Zealand Cricket officers have now commissioned worldwide safety marketing consultant and knowledgeable, Reg Dickason to go to Pakistan later this week to hold out a radical safety and COVID-19 evaluation earlier than advising them whether or not they need to ship their crew to Pakistan.
    “Dickason has been a regular visit to Pakistan to carry out security and other cricket related assessments for the International Cricket Council and other boards in recent years so we are confident there is no one better than him to give a compressive report on the security situation in the region following the events in Afghanistan,” an official supply within the Pakistan Cricket board, stated.
    New Zealand are already set to area a depleted crew with seven to eight of their main gamers, together with captain, Kane Williamson, not coming on account of their IPL commitments.
    Williamson and senior gamers like Trent Boult, Lockie Ferguson, Kyle Jamieson, Tim Siefert, Jimmy Neesham, Mitchel Santner have skipped the tour due to their commitments within the T20 occasion, whereas others like Tim Southee and Devon Conway are additionally unavailable for the Pakistan tour.
    New Zealand Cricket stated on Wednesday that the gamers would have the proper to withdraw from the tour in the event that they felt uneasy about touring Pakistan even when the tour went forward on the recommendation of Dickason and different assessments.
    New Zealand might be captained by senior batsman Tom Latham throughout the tour, which might be their first to the nation since 2003.
    NZ cricket additionally has despatched one in every of their officers and a safety marketing consultant in Bangladesh for a reconnaissance go to as their crew first visits Bangladesh and than flies to Pakistan.