ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has ruled out the possibility of holding of Pakistan-India bilateral series in December, a day after Hindu extremists’ protest caused cancellation of cricket talks between the two countries.
Pakistan and India have to play a bilateral series in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this December under an agreement reached in April last year between the BCCI and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
On Monday, the PCB Chairman Shehryar Khan reached the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai to discuss the proposed series with his Indian counterpart Shashank Manohar. But extremists of Shiv Sena stormed the building and protested against any bilateral Pakistan-India series.
The Indian media reports said on Tuesday that the BCCI has said that there does not seem possibility of any Pak-India cricket series in near future.
In April 2014, Pakistan had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the BCCI to play six bilateral series between 2015 and 2023.
Under the agreement, four of those series would be hosted by Pakistan and by and large 14 Tests, 30 one day internationals (ODIs) and 12 Twenty20s would be played in six bilateral series.
The first of these bilateral series was to take place in the UAE in December 2015.
Following the attack and threats of the Shiv Sena activists on Monday, the International Cricket Council (ICC) also withdrew the Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar from the ongoing series between India and South Africa.
