SLC should share expenses if want Pak to host home series in UAE: PCB

PCB is t willing to bear expenses of hosting ar home series in United Arab Emirates and wants Sri Lanka Cricket to share financial burden if it decides t to tour Pakistan for two-Test rubber in December.

After successfully hosting Sri Lanka for a limited over series in Karachi and Lahore in September-October, Pakistan Cricket Board has been pushing Sri Lankans to send ir team for two ICC Championship test matches as well in December.

"PCB Chairman, Ehsan Mani, and CEO, Wasim Khan who is in Dubai for ICC board meetings have apparently conveyed to Sri Lankan officials that if y (SL) insist on playing test series in UAE, y should bear expenses," a reliable source said.

" PCB has decided to take a stance that even after convincing ICC and Sri Lankan board officials that y can properly man all security arrangements in Pakistan, if Sri Lankan board still insists on having series in UAE it will have to pay or share expenses of hosting series," source said.

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Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) chief Shammi Silva, who was in Pakistan for recent white ball series, had said after returning home that visiting players and officials were confined to ir team hotel due to security arrangements and couldn't roam around freely.

"Three days stuck in your hotel even I got fed-up," he told media. He also made it clear that Sri Lankan board would consult its players and team officials on wher y would be willing to tour Pakistan for Test series before reaching a final decision.

He ted that a team has to stay for a longer duration to play a Test series. Pakistan has t hosted a home test series since March 2009 when militants had attacked Sri Lankan team in Lahore, leaving at least six Pakistani policemen dead and ors wounded.

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Pakistan has since hosted all its Test series in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah but Wasim Khan recently said in a television interview that board w felt it was just t cost-effective to host matches away from home.

new leadership in PCB, fully supported by Prime Minister Imran Khan, w feels that time has come to take a strong stance on teams refusing to play in Pakistan and this new policy could be tested for Test series against Sri Lanka.

"This is necessary since Pakistan is also due to host Bangladesh for a Test series in January," source said.

PCB has already said it will be hosting entire fifth edition of Pakistan Super League in Pakistan and tournament will t be split between UAE and Pakistan.

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