England and Wales Cricket Board offers to host Test series between India and Pakistan; BCCI rejects

England and Wales Cricket Board (PCB) has offered to host the Pakistan-India Test series in the future.

According to an England media report, ECB has contacted the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to be a neutral host for a Test series between the two arch-rivals in the future.

“England have offered to be a neutral host for future Pakistan-India Test series opening the possibility of the two countries playing bilateral Cricket for the first time in more than 15 years,” the media outlet claimed.

ECB spoke to PCB about an Indo-Pak series and that’s a bit weird. In any case, a series against Pakistan is not something that the BCCI will decide, but it is the decision of the government. As of now, the stance remains the same. We only play Pakistan at multi-team events, a senior BCCI official Privy to India’s position told PTIit’s Tuesday.

Later on, sources in the PCB confirmed about this development. “ECB has contacted us in this regard.“

“It’s an Unofficial offer and nothing was accepted. PCB wishes to host India as it’s Pakistan’s turn officially,” the source further said.

Pakistan and India have never played a Test match since 2007. The two teams last met in a bilateral white-ball series back in 2012-13.

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