Neutral venue second option

Gen Tauqir, who returned home after attending an Asian Cricket Foundation (AFC) meeting in Dubai at the weekend which had one point agenda regarding the postponed Asia Cup, that third venue cannot be ruled out.

"It is in the best interest of cricket if both countries visited each other, but if that is not possible, a neutral venue is the second best option available to Pakistan," the PCB chairman remarked while talking to reporters at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore.

He said that if Pakistan would play their home series against India at a neutral venue then the Indians would also play their home series at any third venue.

"The Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) has written a letter to the Indian government the other day to seek fresh directives regarding the resumption of series. But as the reply cannot come in 24 hours, so I can't say any more about it further," he conceded.

Unfolding details of that plan, the chairman informed that according to the ICC 10-year plan Pakistan had to tour India in 2004. But according to the PCB plan India should come to Pakistan that year in place of its cancelled tour in 2003. Similarly, according to the new draft, India would visit Pakistan three times and Pakistan will go there twice till 2011.



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