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Afridi Thinks PCB Should Stop Trying to Host India in Pakistan

“As a cricket fan, I’d love to watch India-Pakistan series and the UAE is an ideal venue because a lot of Indian and Pakistanis live in this country”. If we give good offers to foreign players I don’t see any reason why they won’t come. “We have invited them and if they do not want to play then it shouldn’t be any worry, we are still happy”.

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The PCB is still waiting for the green light from its Indian counterpart for December’s planned test and limited-overs series in the United Arab Emirates.

According to the MoU signed between PCB and BCCI, both countries are scheduled to play six series in the 2015-2023 Future Tours Programme, but all were subject to clearance from New Delhi.

“The way Pakistan welcomed India was never seen before”, said Afridi of the 2004 visit by India – their first tour in the neighbouring country for 15 years. Though Zimbabwe stayed on to play the third and final ODI, the incident ruined the efforts made to revive global cricket in Pakistan.

“He is the only player who I idolise, because his way of playing cricket taught me how to handle the hard situations”. But I perceive individuals from each nations need to see their groups play one another.

The PCB has also announced the creation of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), which will be played in February next year in Qatar.

Swat, a district in Pakistan famous for tourism and delicious fruit, is part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, which has produced 16 Test players for Pakistan including Shahid Afridi, Younus Khan and Umar Gul. “As we have been speaking concerning the revival of cricket in Pakistan after the Zimbabwe tour to Pakistan, we began to hope that cricket would proceed to be performed right here”.

“When I got the opportunity to play the leather-ball cricket I didn’t let it go”, Imran said, paying credit to Swat’s District Cricket Associationfor his success. He said that it will look great if cricket grounds of Pakistan filled with crowd.

“Obviously no doubt they are a fine side”.

One main requirement of the program is that the trio have to apologise to their former Pakistan teammates and try to convince them to accept them back in their fold.

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