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Zimbabwe have agreed to tour Pakistan for a
five-match one-day series next month, the first
Test-playing nation to visit in six years,
Pakistan's cricket chief said Thursday.
"Zimbabwe's final reply is that yes we want to
come to Pakistan and although there are some
details to be finalised we hope that they will
come to play five one-day matches -- three in
Lahore and two in Karachi -- next month," said
Shehryar Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket
Board.
The visit would make Zimbabwe the first team
from the ten Test-playing countries to tour
Pakistan in six years.
Foreign teams have refused to tour Pakistan
over security fears since a terrorist attack on the
Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in March 2009.
Pakistan has had to host all its home matches in
United Arab Emirates instead.
Security in Pakistan has improved since last
year's military operation against the Taliban
insurgency in the troubled northwest.
The improved security has raised confidence
levels among international teams with Kenya
touring Pakistan for a five-match series in
December.
Khan also said an Australian army team will visit
Rawalpindi to play cricket with Pakistan's army.
Ireland, which cancelled a tour planned for last
September in the wake of a terror attack on
Karachi airport, might also now be willing to tour
the country, he added.
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five-match one-day series next month, the first
Test-playing nation to visit in six years,
Pakistan's cricket chief said Thursday.
"Zimbabwe's final reply is that yes we want to
come to Pakistan and although there are some
details to be finalised we hope that they will
come to play five one-day matches -- three in
Lahore and two in Karachi -- next month," said
Shehryar Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket
Board.
The visit would make Zimbabwe the first team
from the ten Test-playing countries to tour
Pakistan in six years.
Foreign teams have refused to tour Pakistan
over security fears since a terrorist attack on the
Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in March 2009.
Pakistan has had to host all its home matches in
United Arab Emirates instead.
Security in Pakistan has improved since last
year's military operation against the Taliban
insurgency in the troubled northwest.
The improved security has raised confidence
levels among international teams with Kenya
touring Pakistan for a five-match series in
December.
Khan also said an Australian army team will visit
Rawalpindi to play cricket with Pakistan's army.
Ireland, which cancelled a tour planned for last
September in the wake of a terror attack on
Karachi airport, might also now be willing to tour
the country, he added.
Read More Here
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