Cricket Delegations to start visiting Pakistan

[Asian.Century]

World wide Cricket Delegations, Sponsors hope Pakistan visits

For the nations who remain skeptical, they should have sent some delegation to come and be part of this event and watch what is happening in Pakistan... They are watching that the grounds are so full, they are watching the security given by the government and have understood Pakistan have the capacity to take any measures for the visiting team. Its turing out to be one of the best tours of all time for us.

Wilson Manase, the Zimbabwe Cricket chairman

Manase hoped Zimbabwe's visit would help change the perception of Pakistan in the international cricket community.

"I would like to indicate to the world - especially the Test-playing nations - that Pakistan is a safe country to play cricket," Manase said. "We need to encourage members of the ICC to relook at the position of not visiting Pakistan, and if they are watching how things have gone, they would realise that Pakistan, in the quest to have teams visit, have done great work to create an environment where cricket can be played safely.

"I can tell you that players were never reluctant. They were always ready to go, we never had any dissent within," Manase said. "All players who were selected did come. We are safe, the players are safe, and there is no problem.

While the security detail for Zimbabwe's tour of Pakistan has been extremely heavy -thousands of personnel being only one of the measures put in place - the visitors have also been warmly embraced by the people of Pakistan, who have expressed their gratitude with cheers and posters during the first two Twenty20 internationals in Lahore.

"We have been welcomed greatly by the general population of this country," Manase said. "In actual fact the hospitality we have received here, we have not received anywhere in the word where we havegone to play cricket. We have felt safe here because the cricket board in conjunction with the government has made us feel secure." Zimbabweans Chairman said.

Zimbabweans has been thoroughly entertained, splendid respect, full hospitality, engergetic people responses, and strong modern security protection system in Lahore, Pakistan, foreign cricket delegations must start coming to Pakistan.

 

[Sheikh Rauf]

wish to see tri nation series with SL and SA and hope they will use multiple vanue.

 

[Shamain]

Omg!!! mashaAllah @the last para of news. Glad zims enjoyed it,

 

[Asian.Century]

Pakistan safe country to host cricket, ZC chief

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

LAHORE: Zimbabwe’s cricket chief Wilson Manase believes that Pakistan is a safe country to host international cricket.

Manase, the Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) chairman, also said the landmark decision to tour Pakistan was taken after he had spoken to the Zimbabwe’s defence department and was told that it was all right to play in Pakistan. He was responding to the suggestion from several quarters that the decision to tour was taken despite advice to the contrary from the government’s Sports and Recreation Committee (SRC).

“SRC consulted with the ministry of foreign affairs and someone there said it might not be safe to visit Pakistan particularly after the Karachi incident, but Karachi is different from Lahore,” Manase told Cricinfo. “I tried to see the officials in SRC and they kept on saying that they are busy, and time was obviously short for us as well as we had only two days to go before the team departs.

“So what I did was to consult with the relevant authorities in government, the defense forces - they have got the intelligence, they are the people who know what the situation is and they have given a go-ahead from that area. They told me it’s safe to go. Also, the team that came here to look at the situation gave a clearance and then I took the decision.”

Pakistan has been a no-go destination for major international teams since March 3, 2009, when gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan team bus while it was en route to the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore for the third day of the second Test. Over the last few years, the PCB has been pushing hard to convince teams to tour Pakistan, who have been forced to play their home matches in the UAE.

Zimbabwe were the first Full-Member nation to tour Pakistan in more than six years, but the ICC refused to send its match officials for the games. Manase hoped Zimbabwe’s visit would help change the perception of Pakistan in the international cricket community.

“I would like to indicate to the world - especially the Test-playing nations - that Pakistan is a safe country to play cricket,” Manase said. “We need to encourage members of the ICC to relook at the position of not visiting Pakistan, and if they are watching how things have gone, they would realise that Pakistan, in the quest to have teams visit, have done great work to create an environment where cricket can be played safely.

“For the nations who remain skeptical, they should have sent some delegation to come and be part of this event and watch what is happening in Pakistan. That would have given them confidence. But wherever they are I believe they are watching. They are watching that the grounds are so full, they are watching the security given by the government and have understood Pakistan have the capacity to take any measures for the visiting team. I will brief them in the upcoming ICC meeting in Barbados.”

While the security detail for Zimbabwe’s tour of Pakistan has been extremely heavy -thousands of personnel being only one of the measures put in place - the visitors have also been warmly embraced by the people of Pakistan, who have expressed their gratitude with cheers and posters during the first two Twenty20 internationals in Lahore.

“We have been welcomed greatly by the general population of this country,” Manase said. “In actual fact the hospitality we have received here, we have not received anywhere in the word where we havegone to play cricket. We have felt safe here because the cricket board in conjunction with the government has made us feel secure.”

There had been reports that several Zimbabwe players were reluctant to tour Pakistan in the days before their scheduled departure to Lahore, but all 16 of the first-choice squad eventually made the trip. Manase said no one had any misgivings.

“I can tell you that players were never reluctant. They were always ready to go, we never had any dissent within,” Manase said.

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[Dubious]

Thank you Zimbabwe!!

 

[Green Arrow]

This visit by Zimbabwe team will definitely open the gate for international cricket back in pakistan.

 

[root]

Great thank you Zimbabwe

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

Why not just ban Cricket televising in Pakistan? And disallow the Pakistani Team from having series against foreign nations.

 

[Glitcher]

Why not just ban Cricket televising in Pakistan? And disallow the Pakistani Team from having series against foreign nations.

And that would help us ? How can we ban televising of a sport that we love so much

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

And that would help us ? How can we ban televising of a sport that we love so much

Advertising. 185 Million+ If Pakistan can block Youtube for years even when they have been saying they will stop blocking it, its still blocked.

Guess Pakistanis will have to show weather Cricket is more important or respect.

That is, if the security situation is as safe as they say.

 

[Shamain]

Why not just ban Cricket televising in Pakistan? And disallow the Pakistani Team from having series against foreign nations.

What do u mean by that? U want a dedicated channel for cricket games where ppl will have to pay separately for subscriptions?

 

[scionoftheindus]

There is no chance of any major cricketing team visiting pakistan in the near future.Even the Zimbabwe series is being played in only one ground...this tour is no reflection of the safety in pak.

 

[karakoram]

This tour proves that we are cricket loving nation and are against any type of violence

 

[pakistanitarzan]

There is no chance of any major cricketing team visiting pakistan in the near future.Even the Zimbabwe series is being played in only one ground...this tour is no reflection of the safety in pak.

When I read your post, i did not had to see your Flag to see that you were a typical Bharati!

 

[scionoftheindus]

Successful Zimbabwe tour will help Pakistan’s future gradually, feels PCB chief

fact is no one is interested in Pakistan to play with Indians.

Fact is there is no chance India is going to play pak in the next five years(as long as bjp is in power)...I don't know why pcb is jumping up and down in joy...the govt of India has not given i ts nod yet and will surely not give .