Pak-India cricket officials to meet next month in Colombo

Pak-India cricket officials to meet next month in Colombo

KARACHI: Cricket officials of Pakistan and India will meet on December 17 in Colombo to discuss the strained and suspended bilateral cricket ties between the two neighbor countries, according to an official source in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

It said that the meeting would be held during the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) meet in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

PCB Chairman Shaharyar Khan, who is also the Chairman of the ACC will be accompanied by Najam Sethi and Subhan Ahmad in the meeting, the source said.

Recently, Sethi met with the President of the Indian cricket board Anurag Thakur in Capetown during the ICC executive board meeting. There he discussed to plan a  triangular or quadrangular series but Thakur said it was not possible for them to play Pakistan in a bilateral series as their government didn't support this .

However, the BCCI chief had floated an idea where instead a multi nation tournament could be organized in India or at any neutral venue in which Pakistan and India could play against each other.

The source said that Sethi had reminded Thakur that although he was floating such an idea but at the moment India was even talking about not playing Pakistan in the group stages of the ICC Champions Trophy.

Later, the PCB decided to wait until December 17 to see in which direction Indo-Pak cricket relations are heading before using legal recourse to seek compensation from India or ICC due to the BCCI's refusal to play bilateral series with Pakistan since 2007.

It was at the Capetown meeting that Pakistan asked the ICC to give a ruling on India's refusal to send its women's team to Dubai for the ICC cricket league to play against Pakistan.

However, after ruling that India has forfeited the series which was to be hosted by Pakistan, the ICC technical committee has now awarded six points to Pakistan for the series.