PCB offers to host Bangladesh in UAE

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has offered to host Bangladesh in the United Arab Emirates in a home series that will replace the scheduled tour of Pakistan to Bangladesh in April-May this year.
A senior official of the board said on Friday that a deadlock still persisted between the two boards over sharing of revenues if Pakistan toured Bangladesh in April-May.
"Our contention is simple they owe us a home series as they were scheduled to tour Pakistan in 2012 and didn't come. We on other hand toured Bangladesh in 2011," said Najam Sethi.
"We have now told them that it is our turn to host a series and if they want us to tour then the Bangladesh board must share 50 percent revenues with us or else we have even offered to host them in the UAE as our home series," Sethi said.

He said the Bangladesh board had to understand that the PCB also had to safeguard its financial interests.
"They pulled out of a confirmed tour in 2012 and we suffered loss in revenues. We are just saying that this series is now our home series and if they want to host it they must share the revenues or what do we gain out of the coming series," Sethi who heads the PCB's powerful executive committee and also former chairman said.

Sethi said that Pakistan was also willing to host Bangladesh in the UAE and treat it as a home series to make some revenues.

Asked whether what would Pakistan's final stance if Bangladesh refused to share revenues, Sethi said the PCB was continuing a process of negotiation and was hopeful the Bangladesh board would try to understand the situation.
"Let us not jump to conclusions as we are hopeful this tour will also earn us some revenues," he said.
The Bangladesh board has said that while it would be willing to share some of the expenses of the Pakistan team it would not part ways with any share of the revenues from the series.