HARARE (Cricinfo): Zimbabwe will tour Pakistan as scheduled next month withofficial confirmation all but imminent. This was confirmed to ESPNcricinfoby Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Tavengwa Mukuhlani, who said he was “hopefulwe will be cleared to travel to Pakistan” and that an official announcementwould be made shortly.
That would appear to end any uncertainty surrounding the limited-overs tourset to begin from October 20, with Multan in line to host an internationalfixture for the first time in 12 years.
The series will be held in a bio-secure bubble, with the PCB yet toformalise in full the standard operating procedures which are to befollowed during the series, including the period of quarantine thatZimbabwe’s players will have to undergo. The PCB are privately weighing upthe merits of a quarantine period as short as three days, to one as long asa week. They are understood to be in talks with the ECB and ICC for input.
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England were the first cricket board in world to host an internationalseries in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic by creating a bio-securebubble and went on to play West Indies, Pakistan and Australia. The PCBaccrued some experience of the procedures, given the Pakistan side were inEngland on tour, and are forming their own protocols. It was understood thePCB couldn’t afford the company hired by the ECB to carry out theprocedures.
