New Zealand weighing cricket series in Pakistan

WELLINGTON: New Zealand is weighing up playing cricket in Pakistan without precedent for a long time after a welcome from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

New Zealand have not played in Pakistan since 2003 because of security concerns yet had been requested to play T20 coordinates in the nation in the not so distant future, overseeing body New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said.

"NZC has gotten a demand from the PCB director for New Zealand to play in Pakistan," a NZC representative said.

"Right now NZC is doing due perseverance on the demand and counseling with security suppliers, the administration, and the players.

"We will react to the PCB when this procedure has been finished."

The Black Caps are planned to play tests and one-day internationals against Pakistan in November at the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the nation's assigned 'home' base.

No dates have been issued for those matches yet the representative said they would be played in the UAE.

Pakistan has remained to a great extent kept from worldwide cricket since the 2009 assault on a transport conveying Sri Lanka's group in Lahore.

In any case, Sri Lanka came back to the nation for a T20 coordinate in Lahore in October and West Indies played a current T20 arrangement in Karachi.

New Zealand relinquished their last test voyage through Pakistan in 2002 after a bomb detonated outside their Karachi lodging yet came back to play an ODI arrangement in 2003.

Pakistan media, refering to an anonymous source at the PCB, detailed that Australia have likewise been drawn nearer to play in the nation.

Australia is planned to play tests and constrained overs matches against Pakistan at the UAE later in the year, likely beginning in September or October.

Cricket Australia (CA) declined to affirm the approach however said their next arrangement against Pakistan would stay in the Middle East.

"The wellbeing and security of Australian players is our main need," a CA representative said.

"From an Australia group viewpoint, we are not mulling over moving our current reciprocal visit game plans from going up against Pakistan in the Middle East, when they have the following arrangement."

As indicated by media reports, PCB Chairman Najam Sethi and Chief Operating Officer Subhan Ahmad had held converses with the Australian and New Zealand authorities amid an International Cricket Council meeting in Kolkata before the end of last month.

Pakistan's security plans for the matches against World XI, West Indies and for PSL coordinates in Lahore and Karachi this year earned acclaim in all cases, extending from global cricketers to free security specialists.