The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) have come to a mutual agreement to shift the bilateral ODI series between the two teams to 2022. Sri Lanka had to host the series earlier in Hambantota between September 1 to 8 but the ongoing situation in Afghanistan has forced the boards to postpone the fixtures.
"The ACB had contacted the PCB on Monday evening, requesting to postpone the series for 2022 citing disruption of flight operations in Kabul, increased Covid-19 cases in Sri Lanka, mental health of their players and non-availability of broadcast equipment," PCB said in a release.
PCB Director International Zakir Khan said that the two boards were keen to hold the series but had rescheduled it considering the current situation.
"We have worked very closely with the Afghanistan Cricket Board to make this series happen and were keen to play them in the inaugural bilateral series, but we understand their challenges and have, therefore, agreed to reschedule the series for 2022,” he said.
The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) was earlier forced to shift the series to Pakistan from Sri Lanka as there are no commercial flights taking off from Kabul at the moment. This meant that the team first had to travel to Pakistan by road, then take the flight to Dubai and travel to Sri Lanka from there.