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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