Pakistan and India have not played against each other in a bilateral seriessince 2012. Pakistan toured India nearly a decade ago to play three *OneDay Internationalslink*(ODIs)and two T20 matches.
The Men in Green won the ODI series 2-1 while, the T20I series ended in adraw. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) was led by Zaka Ashraf during thattime.
During an interview, the former PCB chairman made an interesting revelationabout sending the cricketers’ wives with them on the tour. He said that thepartners of the cricketers accompanied them to keep them away from anycontroversy.
During my tenure (as the president of the PCB) when our team went on a tourto India, I advised that the wives of the players will accompany them. Theplayers made a slight objection but I said that their wives will keep aclose check on the players. Eventually, everyone took it in a nice way andwent to India,” Ashraf told Cricket Pakistan.
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“Everyone remained disciplined as during previous tours, India would alwaystry to trap us and tarnish the image of our players and country. Thisdecision was taken so that no controversy could be created as Indian mediais always on the lookout for that. So, we managed to avoid anycontroversy,” he added.
