England To Tour Pakistan In 1999 (03 Nov 1995)

Pakistan tour date

ARIF ABBASI, chief executive of the Pakistan Cricket Board, has confirmed plans for a full tour by England in 1999. He also talked of his hopes for a brighter cricketing future between England and Pakistan, eight years after the ill-fated 1987 trip which included the row between umpire Shakoor Rana and England captain Mike Gatting in Faisalabad.

Abbasi, who met the England A tourists at a reception last night, said: "I have a very good rapport with A C Smith [of the TCCB], and we have agreed on a tour in 1999. Undoubtedly the business with Shakoor held things up but recently it was a matter of trying to find space in our diaries."

Source :: Electronic Telegraph