October 23, 2001	Tuesday	Shaba'an 5, 1422

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JAMAICA, oct 22: Their forthcoming tour of Sri Lanka finally settled, the West Indies’ next overseas assignment, originally scheduled for Pakistan next February and March, is likely to be moved to another country.

According to West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Reverend Wes Hall, Pakistan are not planning to host any tours any time in the near future.

Hall and WICB chief executive Gregory Shillingford attended the International Cricket Council (ICC) meeting in Kuala Lumpur that ended Friday with a decision to use what it termed independent venues for series scheduled in countries affected by recent horrific events.

“They (the Pakistan Cricket Board) are going to write us with their proposal,” Hall said by telephone.

“We’d have to look at the logistics of us saturating our public with a lot of tours,” he said, noting that India and New Zealand are scheduled to come to the West Indies between early March and late June next.

“It might be easier to play it in a neutral country and we might look at Kenya or somewhere like that but we’ll have to sit down and talk.”

Hall said Pakistani officials told the ICC meeting they were anxious to fulfil their commitments on the ICC programme but admitted they could not host visiting teams under the present circumstances.