Desk Report
Publish: 20 Dec 2021, 04:16 pm
Photo: AFP
New Zealand Cricket on Monday announced back-to-back tours
of Pakistan next season, after the abrupt and controversial decision to cancel
this year's tour on security grounds.
The Black Caps will tour Pakistan from December 2022 to
January 2023 to play two World Test Championship fixtures and three one-day
internationals, New Zealand administrators said.
The world's number two Test team will then return to
Pakistan in April for five one-day internationals and five Twenty20 matches.
In September, New Zealand caused a diplomatic incident by
cancelling a series in Pakistan just as the first one-dayer was due to start in
Rawalpindi.
The team quickly left the country with little explanation
about the nature of the threat.
England cancelled their own Pakistan tour soon after.
At the time Pakistan's interior minister Sheikh Rasheed
Ahmad was adamant there was "no threat to cricket in Pakistan, there was
no threat to New Zealand and there is no threat to England".
The cancellations had been a huge setback for Pakistan, who
have struggled to entice foreign sides back after home internationals were
suspended after a deadly terror attack on the Sri Lanka Test side in 2009.
Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ramiz Raja welcomed the
news. "This reflects the strong, cordial and historic relations"
between the two cricket boards, he said.
He added the move "reconfirms Pakistan's status as an
important member of the cricket fraternity."
Dates for the fixtures are yet to be announced.
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