LAHORE, Feb 21: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will not involve fully the respective cricket associations in the organisation of matches during the next month's home series against India.

"It is a top class cricket event and we will not let the associations to be fully involved with PCB to organise the matches, but, obviously they will be alongside the PCB", said Ramiz Raja, the PCB chief executive, said at a news conference on Saturday.

To a question, Ramiz said, though the provincial cricket bodies have been dissolved throughout the country and previous cricket bodies (city cricket associations) have been restored but PCB cannot purely rely on them to organise the matches.

In the past PCB and the respective city cricket associations were jointly organising the matches and they (associations) were getting a due share from the gate money but the present set up of the PCB has stopped this practice and instead organised the matches itself during the home series last year.-APP