Ex-ICC President urges Pakistan not to tour India – Cricket News Update
Former ICC President http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ehsan-Mani-c55791 on Monday came hard on Pakistan Cricket Board’s top brass for agreeing to send its players to India for a short limited-overs series later this month, despite it being the latter’s turn to tour Pakistan.
"I think the PCB is wrong to have agreed to this," Mani said in an interview to Pakpassion. "If it is a political decision, then the PCB should have asked the politicians to make sure that India reciprocated by coming and playing against Pakistan even if it was at a neutral venue," the ex-http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 chief insisted.
The two sub-continental giants, India and Pakistan, are all set to resume bilateral cricketing ties after a gap of five years, with the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 cricket team scheduled to tour the former for three One Day Internationals and two T20 Internationals between December 25 and January 6, 2013.
The cricketing ties between the nemeses had been on hold since 2007, the last time when the Men in Green toured India for a series. The Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 in November that year, as the Indian government suspected involvement from across the border.
However, in a bid to break the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gareth-Berg-c1457 and to show how serious his board and the country was for the resumption of the bilateral ties between the two subcontinent nations, the PCB chief agreed to send Pakistan cricket team to India later this year.
Mani said that he couldn't understand how the PCB management agreed to send its national team to India when the latter owes Pakistan two series which it had cancelled out in the past, adding that it was totally wrong that his compatriots should be going to India.
"My opinion is Pakistan should not be going to India at all. India or the BCCI went out of its way after the Mumbai attack to isolate Pakistan cricket at the ICC," said Mani, who was Pakistan's representative in the International Cricket Council (ICC) before becoming its President in 2003.
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