India Pakistan Resume Cricket Ties

India Pakistan Cricket Series 2012

India Invites Pakistan for A Cricket Series 2012

India Pakistan Resume Cricket Ties

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The Pakistan Cricket Board on monday swiftly welcomed the first proposed cricket series with India in five years, saying millions of fans would be delighted. PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf told local television channels that Pakistan was still waiting for a formal invitation for the series, but said "it seems it will surely be held later this year". India's cricket chiefs said they had invited Pakistan for a tour later this year, which would be the first in five years if approved by their governments.

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The working committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) invited Pakistan for the series, likely to be three one-day internationals, in December-January. "The decision is great and we welcome it. It seems that millions of cricket fans have their wishes fulfilled," said Ashraf in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore. "We are still waiting for a Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) invitation for the series, but it seems it will surely be held later this year."
Former Pakistani skipper Imran Khan on tuesday termed Pakistan-India series taking place in December this year in India, as a positive step towards peace between both the countries. Talking to newsmen here at Marghzar cricket ground at the opening ceremony of Mobilink Jazz Summer Cricket Camp for children organized by National Press Club, Imran Khan hailed the PCB chairman and his counterpart's efforts in resumption of the cricket ties between both the countries. "It is a great step in making relations better between Pakistan and India," Imran Khan said, who is also the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

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Imran Khan while praising NPC's efforts for organizing sports activities for children, said sports is a healthy activity as it makes everybody physically fit and makes a person mentally strong. Imran Khan said that player succeeds in the game of cricket who learns from his mistakes and rectifies them. "When I was working for the making of Shaukat Khanum hospital, I had to go through many difficulties but it was cricket that didn't let me tumble and I stood firm through the difficulties and succeeded in my plan," he said.

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Imran Khan said a person who refuses to lose in the game or in life always succeeds. "A person with a strong willpower cannot lose in any game or in life,"

On monday cricket diplomacy appeared to be back on the agenda when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced it had invited Pakistan for a series of bilateral matches on 22 December, after the England team completes its India tour.
If all goes to plan, the Pakistan team will play three one-day internationals (ODIs) on Indian soil, as well as two Twenty20 matches. The decision prompted hopes that political relations between the two countries were finally warming up following almost four years of decidedly frosty dealings.

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But in Mumbai, where the wounds of the attacks remain raw, the opposition and ruling parties of the Maharashtra state parliament reacted angrily to the news. "We should consider allowing them to come to our country only after Pakistan clears its policy on international terrorism," said Ramdas Kadam, leader of the local Shiv Sena party.
Abu Azmi from the Samajwadi party in Maharashtra added: "Pakistan is a culprit in the terror attacks in Mumbai. How can we have sporting relations with them?" Sunil Gavaskar, a former Indian international batsman, said: "Being a Mumbaikar I feel: what is the urgency when there is no co-operation from the other side?" 

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The visit was organised after heavy lobbying from Pakistan, said Rajeev Shukla, a senior official at the BCCI. "The PCB has been very persistent over the past few years on resuming cricketing ties with Pakistan and if you remember we have also played against Pakistan even after the 1971 war and after the 1999 Kargil war … we have played a series in Pakistan," he told reporters in Delhi. Asked whether the India team would soon play in Pakistan, Shukla said: "Until the security situation in that country is conducive, there is absolutely no question of India travelling to Pakistan."
India cancelled a tour of Pakistan in 2009 and ever since, the two arch-rivals have only faced each other in multi-team events such as the World Cup. The neighbours last played in a bilateral series in November 2007, in which India beat Pakistan 3-2.
Winning means a lot to both sides, said Pradeep Magazine, a cricket writer on the Hindustan Times. "Whenever India plays Pakistan, the streets are deserted; everybody is inside watching the match. We want to win. People here are willing to forgive India a lot, but not a loss against Pakistan."




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