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India open to playing Pakistan in neutral venues - PCB

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Ijaz Butt, the Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, has said that India are open to playing bilateral series at neutral venues, and that the ICC has agreed to factor it in in its Future Tours Programme (FTP) post 2012. The PCB had earlier complained that the original FTP excluded India-Pakistan Test tours because of the Indian government's decision to put bilateral tours on hold after India's scheduled tour of Pakistan last year was called off. "It is natural that governments of both countries will have to approve any cricket series but there have been efforts to revive Indo-Pak cricket and India has shown interest in playing on neutral venues," Butt told AFP. "We have received a fresh draft of the FTP which is two blocks of four years each, from 2012 to 2016 and to 2020. In it we have Tests, one-dayers and Twenty20 matches with India." The terror attacks in Mumbai in November jeopardised India's tour of Pakistan and relations between the two countries. The Indian government directed the BCCI to call off the tour alleging that Pakistan were involved in those attacks. Pakistan cricket was jolted again in March when the touring Sri Lankans were attacked when travelling in the team bus in Lahore in the middle of a Test match. With teams refusing to tour the country in the immediate future, the PCB has explored the option of playing in neutral venues and Butt said that India was welcome to the idea. Butt added that the FTP will be on the agenda when the board meets with the ICC next month in South Africa. "We need a busy FTP in order to survive and playing against India is the top priority, and that's why we demanded changes in the FTP," Butt said. Pakistan and India last played a bilateral series in 2007-08 in India, with the hosts winning the Test and ODI series. India last toured Pakistan in 2005-06, losing the Tests 1-0 and winning the ODIs 4-1. The teams have never played a Test at a neutral venue. http://www.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/425625.html Since when did he become the spokesperson for BCCI? :finger:

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I think that this is great news because India Pakistan matches are the best matches in the world! huge crowds even in warm ups. Good for the economy of wherever the match happens and awesome enterntainment for cricket lovers! I hope this is just not some joke and is real because I really want to watch Pakistan in action against India. Inshallah.

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I think that this is great news because India Pakistan matches are the best matches in the world! huge crowds even in warm ups. Good for the economy of wherever the match happens and awesome enterntainment for cricket lovers! I hope this is just not some joke and is real because I really want to watch Pakistan in action against India. Inshallah.
Not going to happen at least for the next few months for both the teams are going to be busy... Pak with their tours and India theirs... But in any case, I don't want this tour to happen. Not until Pak shows some steps on curbing terrorism. and arrest LET chief Saeed.
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Neutral venue - Sharjah would be really good. Should play all our T20' date=' ODI & Test ther against India!!! :two_thumbs_up:[/quote'] pakistan's wants sharjah as a venue because there is islamic pakistani underworld connection to it..all umpires are threatened to give decisions in favour of pakistan...that's why India has a poor record against P@kis in Sharjah
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Sharjah has been banned from hosting international cricket matches, for the simple reason that it bred betting and match fixing in a big way... ========================= A significant reason on why the use of Sharjah as an international cricketing venue has declined is due to the surfacing of match fixing allegations. This led to the Indian government banning the national cricket team from playing at Sharjah. Since then, the new 20,000 seat Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi has become the preferred venue for cricket in the UAE. ========================== Sharjah was at the centre of Sir Paul Condon’s investigations into corruption in cricket. Although the report did not conclusively single out the venue much controversy raged. BBC Cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew said in 2001 : “Sharjah has been pinpointed as being the centre of this activity [match fixing] and, again, this is entirely plausible. I would swear under oath that two of the dozen or so matches I have witnessed on that desert ground over the years were fixed”.

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