Pakistan to tour England six years after spot-fixing scandal

Sport360 staff 20:10 25/08/2015
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  • Pakistan will tour England next year for the first time since 2010.

    Pakistan will tour England next year, their first visit since their spot-fixing marred 2010 tour, the English Cricket Board (ECB) announced Tuesday.

    Pakistan are scheduled to face the recently-crowned Ashes winners in four Test matches, five one-day

    internationals and a T20 in 2016, the ECB confirmed.

    Pakistan touch down on June 29 and their first Lord’s Test since the spot-fixing controversy begins on July 14 following tour matches at Somerset and Sussex. They will also play Tests at Emirates Old Trafford, Edgbaston and the Kia Oval.

    The series concludes with five more ODIs between August 24 and September 4 and a Twenty20 game in Manchester three days later.

    Tainted trio: Amir, Butt & Asif in 2010.

    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 UAE in October.

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    Before Pakistan’s visit England will face Sri Lanka in a three-match Test series with the first game beg-inning at Headingley from May 19.

    Sri Lanka then head north to Emirates Durham (May 27-31) bef-ore rounding up the three-match series at Lord’s (June 9-13). The tour also includes a five-match ODI series between June 21 to July 2.

    “Both Pakistan and Sri Lanka will attract strong support from their own communities in this country, which all adds up to another exciting summer of international action played in front of packed houses for all three formats of the game,” ECB chief executive Tom Harrison said.

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