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Karachi, Oct 24: A senior PCB official has said that there is still hope for the India-Pakistan bilateral cricket series to be held in December in the UAE.
Najam Sethi, who heads the PCB’s executive committee, also downplayed reports that the BCCI had not followed the norms of hospitality while inviting the Pakistan cricket delegation to Mumbai.
“My impression is that the Indian board also wants to have the series. If they didn’t want that they would not have invited us to Mumbai for talks in the first place,” Sethi said on a TV channel.
He said one could assume the Indian board came under pressure after Shiv Sena extremists attacked the board offices in Mumbai and thought it better in their wider picture to not hold talks with the PCB delegation at that time.
“But they provided us security and protection to the
airport when I and Subhan (Chief operating officer left Mumbai for Dubai Monday, ” Sethi who signed the MOU with the Indian board last year as PCB Chairman said.
He said the Indian board had also kept them informed through an officer. When reminded what PCB Chairman Shaharyar Khan had said about the hospitality, or the lack of it, on his India visit at a press conference back home, Sethi said he could understand former diplomat’s viewpoint as he was disappointed that BCCI President Shashank Manohar didn’t call him directly.
