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It is reported that The Pakistan Cricket Board has signed a three-year agreement to play its home one-day internationals and Twenty20 matches at the new Dubai Sports City. ^BBC

Wasim, who incidentally authors a tight, incisive blog on cricket, takes a second look at it. ^{Cricket Files.com}

While explaining the value of this move to Pakistan cricket's progress, Wasim also clarifies some mistaken impressions.

He explains n the comments - "So far no home games have been shifted but you never know PCB has been pushed against the wall by other boards, I think PCB has done whatever they could but things are beyond their control, we can’t change our geographical location, we are caught in the middle of the storm and will continue to pay the price for being the ally of allies for quite some time to come." ^Link

The venerable Q of WellPitched concurs in the same discussion. There is an article at WP as well. ^Link


My own view is that all this is good for Pakistan cricket under the present circumstances. However, bilateral series - tests and one-dayers - should be played on Pakistan soil. I am a firm believer of that unless governments have a role in preventing its citizens from travelling.

There will always be different schools of thought on this, often passionately debated; I have mine, which I have entered in at Cricketfiles.com.

You can read more of this interesting development for Pakistan cricket at both the blogs and record your views on the same.

The Dubai Sports City management will be conducting the matches, and if that view above of Palm Jumeirah is anything to go by, and if the cricket can match that vista, what a spectacle it will be! I'm waiting for some aerial shots by the TV crew.