LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has agreed to play a limited-overs tour of Zimbabwe comprising two Twenty 20s and three one-day internationals starting in September, after plans for a tri-series involving the West Indies were scrapped.
A Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official said “Pakistan will play two Twenty20 internationals in Zimbabwe in September before playing three one-day internationals in October.”
The planned tour comes after Pakistan hosted Zimbabwe in May and June, the first visit to the militancy-hit South Asian country by a Test-playing team in six years.
The tour was hailed as a breakthrough moment for the revival of international cricket in Pakistan, which was suspended after militants attacked the Sri Lankan team bus in 2009.
Zimbabwe Cricket had proposed to play a tri-series involving the West Indies instead of a bilateral series.
Pakistan had moved to eighth place from ninth after beating Sri Lanka 3-2 in a series that ended last week, but risked dropping back down to eighth had they lost to either team
