ZC to finalise Pakistan tour

Sports Reporter
ZIMBABWE Cricket are today set to make their position on the tour of Pakistan following weeks of deliberations with their Asian counterparts on the possibility of a bilateral engagement.

The tour has been shrouded in uncertainty but indications are that it will go ahead as planned next month after the hosts managed to convince the Zimbabweans about the safety of visiting the Asian nation. Although their Pakistan counterparts have confirmed the tour, ZC managing director, Alistair Campbell, yesterday said they will only make their position known today.

“I think that issue has now reached finalisation and tomorrow (today) we will have a press conference to address all the issues related to that,” said Campbell.

“The team is training as it were in preparation for the tour. The boys are going through their paces and they are doing fine.” Zimbabwe are set to become the first Test team to tour Pakistan in six years. The team has since started preparations for the short tour, expected to take place in the middle of May.

The schedule of the ODI series is yet to be confirmed but it is more likely that the teams will engage in either a five or three-match one day series and two Twenty20 matches. No Test team has toured Pakistan since 2009 when militants attacked the Sri Lankan national team in Lahore. — Cricinfo.