ISLAMABAD, Oct. 24, Reuter: Pakistan will offer to stage the next cricket World Cup in 1991 with India as cohost, Pakistan Cricket Board President Ghulam Safdar Butt said.
He said in Lahore on Friday that Pakistan, hosting 10 matches of the present World Cup, had the “ability and capacity to organize such 2 big events again”.
Butt said Pakistan would ask India to have an equal share of matches in 1991 compared with the 17 out of 27 games India are putting on this time.
“India sponsored the current world cup and Pakistan shared a third of it Now we have invited them to cohost ‘and the matches will be shared equally.” he said.
‘Butt said the World Cup should be passed around the cricket playing nations rather than being confined to any cone of them, and offered to help if ‘Australia and New Zealand wanted to cohost the 1995 tournament.
Butt said doubts expressed in some ‘quarters about Pakistan’s ability to stage matches this time had proved misplaced. The matches were organi2ed smoothly and Pakistan had developed some new test centers, he said.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 30, 1987
