AFP, United Kingdom :
Nine years on from the armed attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore, Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur says he hopes “we’re really close” to the world’s leading teams touring there again.
International cricket in Pakistan was effectively suspended for several years after the 2009 attack.
Zimbabwe, however, played several limited-overs fixtures in Pakistan three years ago.
Pakistan have subsequently welcomed a World XI and last year played a Twenty20 international against Sri Lanka in Lahore, while earlier this month they completed a 3-0 at home to the West Indies, the World Twenty20 champions.
But Test cricket has yet to resume in Pakistan, with the United Arab Emirates remaining their ‘home away from home’.
