http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sialkot-c842 Stallions’ participation in Champions League would break the ice, hopes Pakistan envoy – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Malik-c89416, hopes the Sialkot Stallions' visit to India later this year for the T20 Champions League will break the ice and increase the chances of resumption of bilateral cricketing ties between the arch rivals,
India and Pakistan.
"That is a sort of breaking of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gareth-Berg-c1457," said Malik about Pakistan’s domestic T20 Champions Sialkot Stallions' participation in this year’s T20 Champions League, to be held in India in October.
"The two cricket boards are discussing the possibility of restarting the cricket ties and series," he added further.
The envoy also revealed that the chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board, Zaka http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sharadchandra-Govindrao-Pawar-c89751 and the vice president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Rajiv Shukla.
Zaka Ashraf toured India last week on the invitation of his BCCI counterpart N. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Srinivasan-c90829 to watch the IPL final between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings, played at Chennai on last Sunday, May 27, 2012.
The PCB chief stayed in India after the IPL final and called upon the top brass of BCCI and discussed the matter with them in detail.
"I hope that the cricket bilateral series between India and Pakistan resume soon," said Malik, Pakistan’s high commissioner in India.
"There is a desire on the part of the leadership of both countries that this start," he adding further.
Malik also told media persons that the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gilani, had also been assured by his Indian counterpart http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manmohan-Singh-c74213 that he would in person take up the issue with the Indian cricket board.
Cricketing ties between India and Pakistan reached a deadlock after the terrorist attacks in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 on November 27, 2008. Since then, the cricket teams of both the countries have not played a bilateral match.
As per http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625’s Future Tour Programme, Pakistan was scheduled to tour India in April this year but this could not happen as BCCI failed to get clearance from the Indian government. However, since Zaka Ashraf’s tour of India last month, there have been news
making the rounds that the nemesis are likely to play a short series in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, sometime later this year or at the start of 2013.
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