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Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has expressed its desire to host all Afghanistan's home series in Sri Lanka. It also wants to host all the India-Pakistan matches in Sri Lanka.
These suggestions have come from Prof. Arjuna De Silva, the chairman of the medical panel of the SLC.
Speaking exclusively over the telephone from Colombo on Monday morning, he said, "with the Asia Cup finishing, we would love to invite Pakistan and Afghanistan to make Sri Lanka their cricketing home. Our fans have an excellent relationship with the players of these countries".
The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) did recently play against Pakistan and the bilateral matches were organised by the SLC on behalf of the ACB.
In the past, the PCB made the UAE as its "home" because the international teams were refusing to travel to Pakistan for security reasons and also, in the absence of facilities in Afghanistan, the ACB made UAE and India their "home" for a few series.
"India and Pakistan are not playing each other in their own countries, so at least both teams can play together in our country", Professor added.
In the recent Asia Cup, both India and Pak. teams played matches in Sri Lanka.
"Actually the SLC president is likely to have requested to both boards to consider this proposal and if not, will write to them", Prof. Arjuna signed off. (Bipin Dani)
Cric Fan Monday, 25 September 2023 01:35 PM
Sri Lanka unfortunately has poor weather for cricket, either very hot and humid or raining to disrupt the game. And there are no sizable expat communities of those countries here. Let them play in the middle east. SLC just wants to earn a buck but no worthy contributions are made to improve the quality and conditions of the game in the country. Guess they're only good at issuing supporting documents to C grade actors to get foreign visas.
Arjuna Monday, 25 September 2023 01:55 PM
The Schedules of matches should always have a Reserve Day for each match, and monies should be set aside to give awards to the Ground Staff.
Quintus Christian George Tuesday, 26 September 2023 12:06 AM
Wonderful. Someone needs money
mario Tuesday, 26 September 2023 12:02 PM
Excellent idea. Triple the gate money and allow the hotels to charge exorbitant rates and the cricket-mad cashed-up Indian fans would pay anything to see their team win. One excellent way to get the economy back on track.
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