MCC cricket team tour to Pakistan delayed

MCC World Cricket Committee chairman Mike Gatting said that the committee was eager to see the resumption of tours to the nation after 10 years, and that the MCC would be interested in sending a touring team of its own by way of re-opening the door – final security checks pending as ever.
“We had a brief presentation from [PCB managing director] Wasim Khan,” Gatting said. “As MCC, I think we can see there’s some safety issues that are still there, but I suspect if those can be overcome everybody is happy, [then] I don’t see why there’s any reason we can’t [organise] an MCC tour there, and other teams would have to make their own assessment of how safe it is to play there. One hopes it won’t be long before they can convince people it is a lot safer than it was and as soon as that’s the case, MCC will look at sending a touring party over.”