New Zealand Cricket refuses to send team to Pakistan
Islamabad, July 31 (IBNS): New Zealand Cricket has refused to send its cricket team to Pakistan to play a T20 series in the nation later this year, media reports said.
"The Blackcaps will head to the United Arab Emirates in October to face Pakistan in three tests, three one day internationals and three Twenty 20 matches," reported NEWSHUB.
New Zealand Cricket officials have cited security reasons as the cause behind declining the proposal.
Pakistan Cricket Board officials reportedly hoped to convince New Zealand Cricket to send players to the south Asian nation.
However, New Zealand officials have refused to do so.
"At the end of the day it came down to following the advisory and the security reports we'd obtained." NZ Cricket Chairman Greg Barclay told NEWSHUB.
"There's no doubt they (Pakistan Cricket Board) are disappointed. I think they saw a tour by a country like New Zealand as being a great precedent for them to start to build an international programme back in Pakistan," Greg said.
"So they're disappointed but they're good guys, we get on really well with Pakistan, and I think they're fully accepting of the decision that we've reached," he said.
New Zealand team last visited Pakistan in 2003.
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