News Desk
\nKarachi
\nCricket Australia Chief Executive Kevin Roberts has said he is hopeful the cricket team will tour Pakistan in 2022 but won\u2019t rush a decision. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Robertson said his visit was aimed at strengthening relationships with the Pakistan Cricket Board rather than assessing whether Australia\u2019s 2022 tour would proceed.
\nRobertson and Cricket Australia\u2019s head of security Sean Carroll were in Pakistan on Tuesday on a day-long visit where they were given a security briefing.
\n\u201cThe beauty of the timing of this visit, we wanted it to happen well before we were faced with a key decision,\u201d Roberts said.
\n\u201c… The purpose was really to understand the landscape, look at the plans they have in place around security and then start expressing our expectations for the safety of our players and our support staff well over two years away from when we\u2019re due to tour.
\n\u201cSo that we\u2019re not dealing with that in a pressure-cooker environment a couple of months before the tour,\u201d he said. \u201cThings are heading in the right direction, but in saying that we were travelling in armoured cars and escorted by police and felt very safe over there. But certainly that level of security is still required at this point.\u201d
\nWhen asked if Australia would again tour Pakistan, Roberts said, \u201cI hope so. I really hope we do for the sake of world cricket and Australia\u2019s important relationship with Pakistan.\u201d
\n\u201cAs I said to Pakistan, we share their desire for international cricket to return to their country,\u201d Roberts said
\n\u201cWe have got the next couple of years to hopefully plan for a tour in 2022 but we have just got to step that out gently, bit by bit, rather than rushing into it,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
News Desk Karachi Cricket Australia Chief Executive Kevin Roberts has said he is hopeful the cricket team will tour Pakistan in 2022 but won\u2019t rush a decision. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Robertson said his visit was aimed at strengthening relationships with the Pakistan Cricket Board rather than assessing whether Australia\u2019s 2022 tour would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n