Karachi [Pakistan]: The England cricket team reached Pakistan on Thursday for the first time in the past 17 years for a seven-match long T20I series scheduled to start on September 20.
England completed in Pakistan in 2005 as well as were set up to return in 2014 prior to cancelling at the eleventh hour after New Zealand also took out from the trip due to safety worries. After a strike on the Sri Lankan group bus in Lahore in 2009, Pakistan was forced to play worldwide matches in neutral websites such as the United Arab Emirates, where they held England for series in 2012 and also 2015.
International cricket has actually progressively gone back to Pakistan over the last five years, and Australia explored effectively previously this year for the very first time in almost a quarter-century.
The trip likewise occurs when Pakistan is handling ravaging floods that have immersed about a 3rd of the nation and influenced a minimum of 33 million people.
The 19-man England team, led by captain Jos Buttler, will play seven Twenty20 matches against Pakistan in Karachi and also Lahore from September 20 to October 2 as both groups plan for the T20 World Cup in Australia next month.
England will certainly return to play 3 five-day Test matches in December.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has brought a discourse group for the historic seven T20 Internationals in between Pakistan and England in an effort to boost the television watching experience of cricket fans around the world.
Prominent English commentators David Gower as well as Mark Butcher, Pakistani cricket luminaries Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Aamir Sohail, Bazid Khan, as well as Urooj Mumtaz, will certainly provide commentary on the 7 video games, which will take place in Karachi and Lahore from September 20 to October 2.
These analysts will additionally share understandings in pre as well as post-match programs held by acclaimed speaker Zainab Abbas throughout the period.
