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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Visiting WICB delegation to carry out security assessment

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KARACHI - The del­e­ga­tion is ex­pect­ed to as­sess the se­cu­ri­ty sit­u­a­tion here and hold talks with lo­cal of­fi­cials, as the WICB con­tin­ues to mull over whether to ac­cept the PCB's in­vi­ta­tion for the games which would mark the first vis­it to Pak­istan by a ma­jor crick­et­ing na­tion in near­ly eight years.

Ac­cord­ing to the Press Trust of In­dia, the WICB del­e­ga­tion's vis­it will co­in­cide with that of for­mer chair­man of the Eng­land and Wales Crick­et Board, Giles Clarke who is head of the ICC's spe­cial task force on Pak­istan crick­et.

"We have re­quest­ed them to con­sid­er tour­ing Pak­istan be­fore the Flori­da match­es for a cou­ple of T20 games and we have al­so sent our com­pre­hen­sive se­cu­ri­ty plan to them for de­lib­er­a­tion," he said.

Na­jam Sethi, chair­man of the PCB's ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee, con­firmed the vis­it by the WICB del­e­ga­tion and said the Caribbean gov­ern­ing body were al­ready in re­ceipt of a se­cu­ri­ty plan for the pro­posed tour.

Once the two-match tour goes ahead, Sethi said the PCB would give the green­light to two T20Is in Flori­da � al­so in March � which have been pro­posed by the WICB.

Pak­istan are sched­uled to tour the Caribbean in March and April lat­er this year, play­ing two Tests and three One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als.

West In­dies took on Pak­istan in a full se­ries of three Tests, three ODIs and three T20Is last Oc­to­ber and No­vem­ber, but the tour was played in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates which in re­cent years have be­come the PCB's home venue.

No ma­jor Test play­ing na­tion has toured Pak­istan since a bus car­ry­ing the Sri Lankan Test side was at­tacked by mil­i­tants, re­sult­ing in in­juries to sev­er­al play­ers and the death of half-dozen law en­force­ment of­fi­cers.

The PCB has since ar­gued that the volatile sit­u­a­tion has im­proved and told the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil last year they would re­quest com­pen­sa­tion as a re­sult of teams re­fus­ing to tour Pak­istan.

Ac­cord­ing to the me­dia re­port, Clarke will re­ceive a de­tailed se­cu­ri­ty as­sess­ment dur­ing his vis­it. CMC


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