Lahore, Jul 8 (PTI) Pakistan Cricket Board is assured that it will possibly nonetheless persuade Cricket West Indies (CWI) to scrap the three-match ODI collection and as a substitute play extra T20Is in July-August this yr.
PCB CEO Sumair Ahmed stated on Tuesday that talks with the West Indies board are within the closing phases and a call is predicted within the subsequent couple of days.
“As , we have now the T20 World Cup developing early subsequent yr, so our intention is to provide the group as a lot T20 publicity as potential,” Sumair instructed a press convention right here.
Apparently, even because the PCB officers have interaction with the West Indies board, the hosts have already begun sale of tickets for the originally-scheduled three T20Is and as many ODIs.
Pakistan is scheduled to play the T20s in Lauderhill, Florida and the ODIs in Trinidad.
The West Indies board has supplied a particular scheme to promote tickets, together with a “purchase one, get one free” deal. The only-ticket costs have been decreased by 50 per cent. For the ODIs, ticket costs vary between USD 8 to 175.
However Sumair insisted the talks are nonetheless ongoing.
“For us, the preparations for the following T20 World Cup are a precedence and that’s the reason we lined up solely T20Is in opposition to Bangladesh, and are additionally asking the West Indies board to extend the T20 matches and drop the ODIs,: he added.
“You may hear extra about this within the subsequent 1-2 days,” he added.
Sumair additionally talked about that the squad for the West Indies tour will probably be introduced as soon as the match codecs are finalised. If the ODIs stay in place, the board may identify separate squads for the 2 codecs.
The PCB can also be attempting to line up a T20I tri-series within the UAE with Afghanistan and the UAE, though it’s Afghanistan which is because of play in Pakistan in August.
