NEW DELHI: Pakistan will play five one-day internationals in India between October 27 and November 7 Arif Abbasi treasurer of the board of control for cricket in Pakistan (BCCP) said here Friday.
Abbasi who held meetings with Madhav Rao Scindia and Jagmohan Dalmia president and secretary respectively of the board of control for cricket in India (BCCI) told PTI shortly before flying back home that the time available was too short to have two test matches instead of the one-day series as was originally proposed by BCCP
The BCCP official said one major achievement (of the visit) was the agreement between the two boards to have regular tours between the two countries.
He said the Indian board president Scindia very readily and very graciously agreed describing it as a very good suggestion.
Abassi said if a full-fledged five test Series was not possible a three test series should be accommodated as there should be no interruption in the exchange of cricketing visits in the sub-continent. The BCCP had earlier this month expressed reservations about having five one-day internationals and instead suggested holding of two test matches.
Abassi said the meal allowance washing allowance and laundry money for the teams was suitably increased keeping in view the recent devaluation of Indian rupee. The guarantee money payment would be on reciprocal basis.
The venues for the five one-day internationals will be announced by the BCCI later Bombay Madras Calcutta should be the automatic choices by virtue of their being permanent test centers while there are six contenders for the other two matches.
Delhi Bangalore Jaipur Nagpur Chandigarh and Kanpur are the centers vying for the remaining two matches according to sources. -Abassi also announced the resumption of the annual super wills cup fixture between the winners of Indian wills trophy and champion of a similar tournament in Pakistan.
The last super wills cup match was played in Lahore October 1989 in which India’s Delhi beat Pakistan’s Habib bank. The B C C l is also considering a proposal for a new format for the Ranjit trophy national cricket championship that envisages a two-tier competition for the 27 teams with the facility of promotion and relegation.
According to the proposal submitted by a private sports promotion firm which was asked to prepare the project report for revamping Ranjit trophy by the board of control for cricket in India (BCCI) the top 10 teams will play in category A’ while the remaining 17 teams will play incalegory ‘B’.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 23, 1991
