Pakistan will tour
England next year, their first visit
since their spot-fixing marred
2010 tour, announced the England
and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on
Tuesday.
Pakistan are scheduled to face the recently-
crowned Ashes winners in four Test
matches, five ODIs and a T20 in 2016,
confirmed the ECB.
Pakistan’s 2010 trip was overshadowed by a
match-fixing affair that rocked the world of
cricket.
Pakistan’s Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt
and Mohammad Amir and their agent
Mazhar Majeed arranged deliberate no-balls
during the Lord’s Test against England five
years ago in return for money in a deal
with an undercover reporter of a now
defunct British tabloid.
The lengthy sanctions against the three
players expire next Tuesday.
But the Pakistan Cricket Board’s chief
selector Haroon Rasheed last week
effectively ruled out any early return for
the trio when England face Pakistan in the
United Arab Emirates in October.
Before Pakistan’s visit, England will face Sri
Lanka in a three-match Test series.
© Express Tribune
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