PCB proposes Friendship Series

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has sent the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) a proposal regarding a two-match one-day series to be played later this year.

Lt Gen Tauqir Zia, the PCB's chairman, told a press conference on Tuesday that the friendship series would consist of one match in each country. "We have proposed that India first come to Pakistan to play the first one-day international of the friendship series in September," said Zia. "Pakistan will then find a slot and visit India in October to play the second match."

India and Pakistan have rarely clashed on the cricket field since the Kargil skirmishes in 1999. They did play each other in the Carlton and United World Series in Australia in December 1999-January 2000, but have met only once since then - at the recently concluded World Cup. The Test matches scheduled between the two teams as part of the ICC's World Championship have also not taken place, with the Indian government refusing to sanction the participation of the national side.