ISLAMABAD – In yet another positive development, Pakistan may host westerntest playing cricket team as Cricket Ireland’s Chief Executive, WarrenDeutrom has said that his country will like to play its part in assistingto get international cricket back to Pakistan.
“Ireland is now a Test nation and we certainly feel it is important that weplay our part in being a mature and grown-up member of the cricket family.We want to play our part in assisting getting international cricket back inPakistan,” Deutrom said while talking to PCB Podcast. Deutrom, who alongwith Cricket Ireland’s Chairman Ross McCollum spent five days in Pakistanon a PCB invitation expressed happiness to visit Islamabad and Lahore.
“It is a great pleasure to be here. First of all, we have been treatedfabulously well. The courtesy, the generosity, the hospitality, the warmth,the love of cricket is plainly obvious for anyone to see.
“To be honest and just at a very human level until you see it withyourself, you come with a set of conceptions or preconceptions. And I thinkthis visit, which was generously made at the invitation of the PakistanCricket Board, would begin to change those perceptions,” he said.
“What we saw in Islamabad and Lahore is the extraordinary lengths to whichthe cricket authorities, the security authorities, the government andpolice, everyone has been working incredibly closely together to buildingthat confidence.
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“It begins to build a sense of OK, well, what are the reasons now to saywhy wouldn’t we come if we have had all these sensitive comforts providedto us. So, it is the beginning, I believe, of a conversation.
He said Cricket Ireland board’s meeting would be held by the end of theongoing month wherein they would like to convey to it (the board) whateverthey had seen in Pakistan. He said they would be telling the board aboutthe remarkable steps that had been taken by the PCB to instil theconfidence in other cricket boards around the world.
