The English and Wales Cricket Board’s chief executive, Tom Harrison, has flown to Pakistan to mend relations between the ECB and the Pakistan Cricket Board. The relationship went sour after England’s cancellation of the promised tour of Pakistan, which was scheduled to take place in October 2021. This has come on the heels of the announcement made by Cricket Australia to visit the subcontinental nation for a full tour which would include three Tests, three ODIs and a T20I to be played in March 2022.
Harrison is scheduled to meet with Pakistan PM and patron in Chief of the PCB Imran Khan and Ramiz Raza. His job will be to assure that the promised Test tour of Pakistan for 2022 would go as planned. The PCB chief was irked after England’s cancellation of the October tour.
"I am severely disappointed in England's withdrawal but it was expected because this western bloc gets united unfortunately and tries to back each other. This is a lesson for us because we go out of our way to accommodate and pamper these sides when they visit. From now on we will only go as far as is in our interest,” Ramiz had said back then.
It would be a two-day visit by Harrison as he is supposed to be in UAE for ICC’s first in-person Chief Executives’ meeting later this week.