Papon responds to PCB offer
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), through a letter on Thursday, responded to the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB's) demand that the PCB should receive half of the earnings from the upcoming series between the two teams scheduled to begin in April.
According to BCB president Nazmul Hassan Papon, the letter touched on two crucial issues.
"Firstly, we wanted to draw PCB's attention to the fact that when New Zealand had cancelled their tour of Pakistan in 2008, we decided to send our national team there to play five ODIs and a T20I. And we did not ask for a share of revenue from that series. It helped them from suffering deeper losses.
"We acknowledge the fact that Bangladesh were supposed to tour Pakistan in 2014, but one has to understand that at that point of time, the matter was out of the BCB's hands. There was a public outcry and a case was filed against the tour," Papon told The Daily Star.
"We also stated that if we received security clearance then we would explore the opportunity of sending any side, apart from the national team, to Pakistan. However, we still don't think it's the right time to send our national cricket team there," added Papon.
Media reports in Pakistan on Friday revealed that the PCB demanded 50 per cent of the revenue from the BCB in return for touring Bangladesh. The PCB also apparently wanted to begin bilateral tours between the countries' under-19 and second-string teams.
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