BCCI to invite Pak team for Champions League T20

May 12, 2012 16:37

In a decision which can have implications on the revival of Indo-Pak bilateral cricket ties, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has cleared the decks for the inclusion of a team from Pakistan in the Champions League Twenty20 for the first time since the event's inception.

The BCCI Working Committee decision will see Pakistan's domestic T20 champions Sialkot Stallions, led by Shoaib Malik,

participate in the event scheduled in October once given the go ahead by the CLT20 Governing Council.

The move indicates a thaw in Indo-Pak bilateral cricket ties which had been snapped after the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. It could also now pave the way for participation Pakistani players in the IPL for the first time after 2008.

"The Working Committee has decided to invite a team from Pakistan to play in Champions League Twenty20 to be held in October," BCCI President N Srinivasan told reporters after the meeting in Chennai.

"This is a recommendation that the BCCI will make to the Governing Council. CLT20 is owned by BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa. So we will recommend to the GC that the BCCI has no objection and is prepared to invite a Pakistan team in the Champions League," he added.

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