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England will tour Pakistan in the future: Ehsan Mani | PCB chief believes England will tour Pakistan in the future | Cricket in Pakistan
Ehsan Mani, former President of the International Cricket Council (ICC), feels cricket will be back through small and tentative steps post the coronavirus pandemic. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief also believes that England will tour Pakistan for their next home tour.
Mani, one of the names doing the rounds to replace Shashank Manohar as the ICC Chairman, said “I don’t think cricket will come ‘bouncing back’. The impact of COVID-19 and the cycles of the virus are different in different parts of the world. Cricket will be back but it will be through small tentative steps, depending on the country involved,” Mani said in an interview with the Times of India.
The 75-year old believes that this is not a time of trading as Pakistan dont expect anything in return from England after this tour. However, he is hopeful that England will tour Pakistan in the future.
“We look to act in the interest of the game as a whole; this is not time for horse-trading. We have been in discussions with the English Cricket Board (ECB) over the past year. Their chief executive and a board member visited Pakistan last year. The ECB chairman, Colin Graves, is very supportive. We are confident that England will tour Pakistan for our next home series,” added Mani.
“We will just have to wait and see what happens in the next two-three weeks. Swapping with Sri Lanka made sense as the COVID-19 situation is better there than in the rest of the subcontinent. I cannot comment of the unofficial views of unknown people. The BCCI president was at the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) meeting and there are no differences of views between us; BCCI is very supportive of cricket in Asia,” as Mani explained the situation surrounding the Asia Cup.
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“Mr Manohar brought all the members together after the damage inflicted on world cricket by the so called ‘big three’. I am sure that all the ICC members appreciate what he has done in unifying all the ICC members in the interest of the game. I have the highest regard for him”, the PCB chief concluded.
Written by Sarthak Karkhanis. Follow Sarthak on Twitter today.
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