Sources in the know told TOI that since international teams are unwilling to travel to Pakistan due to security reasons, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) wants to play its "home series" against Indian in India. BCCI has not given any commitment on this issue but assured Pakistan that it would consider this request at "an appropriate time".
PCB had submitted a similar request to BCCI exactly a year ago, that too right after Pakistan's tour of India, but it wasn't taken forward as PCB was busy sorting out its internal finances mess. "It was more of an informal discussion between the two counterparts. Nothing was finalized in the meeting but BCCI has taken a note of it," a source told TOI.
BCCI had earlier mulled organizing a bilateral series involving Pakistan. When a question mark arose over India's tour of South Africa last year, BCCI had shortlisted two countries - Pakistan and Sri Lanka - for a home series against India.
Of course, BCCI cannot take any decision on a series with Pakistan without a clearance from the Centre.
Meanwhile, bad news for Pakistani cricketers continues in the IPL as they may not be considered by the teams for this season too. In fact, this issue did not come up in Shahryar's discussion with Srinivasan.
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