TIL Desk Sports/ Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Shaharyar Khan today said that the BCCI was willing to play a bilateral series with Pakistan but it was the Indian government which has refused to clear such a contest. Khan told the media here that as far as he knew the Indian Cricket Board was willing to schedule a bilateral series with Pakistan.
“But at the moment they can’t do anything as their government is not giving clearance for such a series. So even our hands are tied now,” he said. Khan took offence when a reporter asked him whether the PCB was following a right policy by literally begging India to play a bilateral cricket series when they were not interested in playing Pakistan.
“I don’t think we are begging the Indians to play with us. That is a wrong presumption. But in international cricket, a Board has to pursue its own interests in a diplomatic manner and we do that,” Khan, a former career diplomat, said.
“We have lost two home series against them and that has cost us millions of dollars in revenues. They also signed a MOU with us in 2014 at the ICC meeting and agreed to a schedule of six series. So we are justified if we are pursuing this matter,” he said.
