PCB to convince Australia to play at least two ODIs in Karachi next year
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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to renew talks with Cricket Australia to convince them to play at least two one-day internationals in Karachi next year.
A five-match ODI series is scheduled between Pakistan and Australia to be played in the United Arab Emirates in March 2019, a private news channel reported.
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The two teams will face each other again at the end of October when Pakistan will play a series of two Tests and three T20Is down under.
After initial talks to convince Australia to tour Pakistan for the series yielded no results, the PCB has decided to resume the talks with Cricket Australia next month.
The board has decided to invite Australian officials to Karachi to monitor the security arrangements during the Pakistan leg of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) fourth edition.
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Dec 17, 2018 08:35pm
Nothing will happen until India gives the thumbs up to the Aussies.
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Dec 17, 2018 08:39pm
Good luck - but I don’t think it will happen
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Dec 17, 2018 08:45pm
Why Karachi alone? What has Lahore done to deserve that? Play one in Karachi and other in Lahore if they agree to visit.
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Dec 17, 2018 09:01pm
In Dreams
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Dec 17, 2018 09:16pm
Never going to happen, let's face it we won't get international cricket in Pakistan until 2023.
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Dec 17, 2018 09:34pm
@Sarai Alamgir, that's what India commands, nice
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Dec 17, 2018 10:02pm
@Waseem Sarwar, If the matches are in Lahore, the Karachiites will say it is unfair. That is what Lahore has done wrong.
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Dec 17, 2018 10:17pm
You'll have to shut down the entire city for those two days, have more security than spectators in the stadium, frisk even the chairman of PCB before everything the stadium, only then will they agree to play
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Dec 17, 2018 10:29pm
Even though the motive is good, I think of all teams on planet Australia is the least likely to come
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Dec 17, 2018 10:36pm
Start with a T20I, preferably at Lahore. Make arrangements for net practice at Dubai. A couple of hours before match starts, fly the players into the venue. They do a bit of pre-match warm up and, play the match. Fly them back to Dubai immediately after post-match media interviews are over. In my opinion, teams are not visiting Pakistan because they are hesitant to STAY in Pakistan for a long time.
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Dec 17, 2018 11:12pm
The question is what PCB would achieve not what PCB would do.
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Dec 18, 2018 12:06am
Good luck to you.
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Dec 18, 2018 12:14am
better to talk about it after the Aussies agree, not before.
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Dec 18, 2018 12:15am
Karachi has been outlined in the past , and I think it’s time to give the city the importance it deserves.
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Dec 18, 2018 12:20am
@Waseem Sarwar, Waseem bhai, first let them come and then we can fight over Karachi-Lahore.
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Dec 18, 2018 12:22am
PCB can not 'convince Australia to play at least two ODIs in Karachi next year'.
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Dec 18, 2018 01:31am
Bold decision by PCB to persuade the Kangaroos to play a minimum of two ODI matches next year on the land and soil of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. After all, some day and time in the near future they have to do so. Why not next year?
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Dec 18, 2018 04:31am
Good luck to pak cricket board, hope once aus starts other teams also come.
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Dec 18, 2018 07:02am
@Waseem Sarwar, why they are refusing Pakistan is world's best peace loving country..
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Dec 18, 2018 07:07am
Impossible.
Aus don't even visit Bangladesh. No chance they will come here.
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Dec 18, 2018 08:44am
Why just Karachi? A better bet, with a more promising outcome, would be to invite them to stay in the federal capital and play the games in Rawalpindi, where we do have the requisite security, and no political party holds any sway over the masses, or threaten with any security issue. So there is little chance of disruption. PCB has to get their thinking right.
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Dec 18, 2018 04:01pm
Carlos of WI sold for Rs 8.7cr during IPL first day of auction.
Money power
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