Pakistan Cricket Board Chiarman Zaka Ashraf has pointed out that the visit of the British University cricket team has dispelled all the wrong impressions about Pakistan.
He was speaking to journalists during a reception organized by the PCB in honour of the British students at the National Cricket Academy.
“I am still hopeful of the Bangladesh team touring Pakistan and I will be playing till the last ball is bowled. The visit of the British University cricket team will open way for other foreign team’s visit to Pakistan.
“I will not sit until my target of getting a team to Pakistan is achieved,” he said.
Zaka Ashraf said: “British Universities team tour to Pakistan is a message to world and the team reluctant to come to Pakistan. “People are crazy about cricket and want to see international cricket back to this country for which we are striving hard and the time is not so far away when Pakistanis will witness international cricket at their home grounds.”
He said that he was hopeful that the ongoing Universities Charity XI tour would be the first of many by overseas teams to Pakistan.
Speaking on the occasion, visiting team captain Komal Alam said that he must thank the PCB for hosting them in such fascinating manner and their visit has also made it clear that Pakistan is a safe country to visit.
One of the British team members Robert Gallimore, who is a British police officer, said that it was the impression of the outside world that Pakistan is not a safe place when the ground reality is quite different from the reports people loving in the other world see.
