Short tour with large implications
Pakistan's upcoming tour of South Africa may be short, but it is in the bigger realpolitik jigsaw of cricket that the series may bring value, writes Osman Samiuddin in The National
18-Nov-2013
Pakistan's upcoming tour of South Africa may be short, but it is in the bigger realpolitik jigsaw of cricket that the series may bring value. No longer is it enough to be on good terms with BCCI; only if it makes enough money for the BCCI is a series deemed amenable. So trying to form an alliance outside the sphere of the BCCI makes unarguable sense, writes Osman Samiuddin in The National.
Not least of the benefits may be advice from Pakistan on how to cope with life without India. The PCB, after all, has now managed to survive over six years without playing India in a full series. It is, the CSA might care to know, possible to do so.