Pakistan Cricket Board CEO Wasim Khan on Tuesday said playing their home matches in the United Arab Emirates is “impossible any longer”, meaning to eliminate costs in light of the “improved security” circumstance in the nation.
The UAE has remained Pakistan’s home setting for quite a while with no Test country visiting the nation since the 2009 fear based oppressor assault on the Sri Lankan group transport.
“It costs us a great deal of cash facilitating there,” the CEO said.
“To be perfectly honest talking the security circumstance has improved in Pakistan and security specialists have likewise surveyed that we are in a situation to oversee security dangers while facilitating groups in the nation,” Khan included.
He said his board has not paid any cash to Cricket Sri Lanka for its visit to Karachi and Lahore to play a progression of One-day internationals and T20 matches.
Khan told the media here that since the PCB currently needs to see Pakistan playing all their home Test and constrained over arrangement in Pakistan, it was attempting to persuade different sheets to begin sending their groups to the nation.
Since 2010, a year after activists assaulted the Sri Lankan group in Lahore, Pakistan have played all their real universal home arrangement in the UAE.
The PCB prevailing with regards to bringing a World XI side to Lahore in 2017 for a short T20 arrangement and afterward persuaded Sri Lanka to play a solitary T20 in a similar city.
A year ago they additionally facilitated an exhausted West Indies group for three T20 coordinates in Karachi, which came at the expense of additional cash to the players and the concerned WICB by the PCB.
Be that as it may, Khan said not a solitary penny has been paid to Sri Lanka for the present visit, as it was a piece of a complementary understanding.
He said that Pakistan additionally needed Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to come and play Pakistan’s home Tests of the ICC Championship in the nation in December and January.
The PCB official likewise said Pakistan needed to continue two-sided ties with India yet that relied upon their administration.
“On the off chance that they additionally express the craving to play against us we would even play at an impartial setting as it is significant that India and Pakistan play cricket. “Cricket is an extraordinary method for uniting individuals and cricket ought to remain cricket. We will play with India. I will be glad to investigate potential outcomes of playing them,” Khan said.