Glad cricket matches will resume: Zardari to PM

July 18, 2012 19:17

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying, he was "glad that cricket matches will resume between us".

"Matches will be a strong confidence measure building," he said.

The BCCI announced recently that it had decided to resume cricketing ties by inviting the Pakistan cricket team for a short series in December 2012-January 2013.

Three one-day internationals and two Twenty20 matches have been planned.

Cricketing ties between the two countries were suspended after the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

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