Pakistan take India for 3 ODI, 2 T20
New Delhi : Cricketing relations between
India and Pakistan will resume in December with CNN-IBN learning
that the BCCI has confirmed a three-ODI and two-Twenty20 series at home. The
short visit will be Pakistan’s first to India since 2007 and has been created
during the short span of time that the England cricket team goes home for
Christmas after the Test series and before it returns for the ODI leg of its
tour.
The three ODIs will be played at Chennai,
Kolkata and Delhi while the two Twenty20 internationals will be played in
Bangalore and Ahmedabad
England, who are touring India from November
to January, playing four Tests, five ODIs and two Twenty20s, go home on
December 22 and return on January 3. However, the first ODI is not scheduled
until January 11. Pakistan were also scheduled to tour Zimbabwe in January but
it appears the PCB has adjusted that.
Relations between India and Pakistan broke
down after the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. Since then there have been no
bilateral series between the two countries and the only three meetings have
come in tri-series or ICC events. This has also led to Pakistan being the only
major Test nation without representation in the Champions League Twenty20
[which is organised by the Indian, South African and Australian boards] and the
IPL, much to the PCB’s dissatisfaction.
India were due to tour Pakistan in January
2009 but that series was cancelled following the 26/11 attacks. As per the
ICC's Future Tours Programme, Pakistan were scheduled to tour India for three
Tests and five ODIs in March-April 2012, but that series was cancelled after
the Indian government did not clear it. In its place the Asia Cup was held in
Bangladesh.
This short ODI series will be the first
bilateral meeting in five years between the two countries.
On May 30, CNN-IBN had
broken the story of the BCCI considering creating a window for the resumption
of bilateral ties with Pakistan.
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