Zaka Ashraf scheduled to tour India next month – Cricket News Update
Zaka Ashraf, the newly appointed Pakistan Cricket Board chairman is scheduled to visit India in the first half of December to hold talks with his BCCI counterpart and other officials on the revival of bilateral cricketing ties between the two countries.
Zaka Ashraf’s next month tour to India was confirmed by a PCB official who claimed that a visa application has also been placed with the Indian High Commission on behalf of the PCB chairman. The official further added that other travel arrangements were
also being made as Ashraf is scheduled to tour the neighbouring country in the second week of December.
The Pakistan Cricket Board official also claimed that Zaka Ashraf’s upcoming visit has been scheduled after the BCCI expressed interest in resuming bilateral cricket ties.
"The PCB Chairman himself is attaching a lot of importance to the visit as it will be an official one that has been encouraged by the Indian board," the official said.
Zaka http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128’s term ended last month. Soon after talking over his office at the PCB headquarters in Gaddafi
Stadium, Lahore, Ashraf wrote a letter to his counterpart in the Indian cricket board seeking a resumption of cricketing ties between the two rival nations.
Sources in the Pakistan Cricket Board revealed that the BCCI had responded positively to PCB chairman’s letter and have offered him to visit BCCI headquarters and meet the Indian officials.
"The Indian Board itself has invited Ashraf to visit India and discuss cricket issues including next year's FTP Pakistan tour to India," the source said.
The former chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board, Ijaz Butt had also been visiting http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 during his three-year tenure but sources claimed that most of Butt’s tours were to resolve the broadcasting issues.
"Except for the 2011 World Cup semi final in Mohali Butt didn't go to India with any formal meeting set up with the Indian board officials," a reliable source said.
The sources also opined that Ashraf had also got a green signal from Pakistan government to hold talks with BCCI and confirm that PCB is ready to send its players to India next year.
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