Times of Islamabad

Pakistan Cricket Board has some more good news to share with Pakistanis

Pakistan Cricket Board has some more good news to share with Pakistanis

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Cricket Board has some more good news to share withPakistanis.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has expressed hope that Cricket SouthAfrica (CSA) to send its national team for a T20I series in March 2020, theboard’s chief executive officer Wasim Khan said on Saturday.

Khan said the PCB has received positive signs from the Sri Lanka Cricket(SLC) that it would send a full strength squad for a two-Test series, whichwould likely be held in Rawalpindi and Karachi in December this year, IANShas reported.

Khan said that talks are on with CSA for sending their national team for aseries in the shortest format of the game.”We are hopeful they will come in late March as the series will also helpboth teams prepare for the World T20I Championship in October,” the PCB CEOsaid.

“The gates to international cricket returning properly to Pakistan are openand there is no doubt that the recent tour by the Sri Lanka team to playthe T20I and ODI series has helped us a lot,” Khan said adding that the SLCwould confirm the tour in a week.