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Islamabad: Pakistan's cricket board is planning a bid to host the 2014 Twenty20 World Cup in the hope that the security situation in the country improves over the next five years, local media reported on Monday.
"Hopefully by that time the conditions to host international events would be ideal in our country," Pakistan Cricket Board chief Ijaz Butt told The News from South Africa, where the national team is contesting the Champions Trophy.
The PCB's top official is scheduled to hold meetings with officials of other cricket boards to "muster their support" while in South Africa, The News reported.
Pakistan lost the rights to host the Champions Trophy last year due to concerns expressed by leading foreign teams. The tournament was postponed by 12 months and moved to South Africa.
Pakistan was also stripped of its rights as co-host of the 2011 World Cup following a terror attack on the Sri Lanka test team earlier this year. It will share revenue with India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh but will not host any of the matches in international cricket's leading limited-overs tournament.
The PCB had been trying to revive the confidence of other countries when it hosted the limited-overs and test series against Sri Lanka earlier this year. That was ruined, however, when gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan team bus on March 3, injuring several players and killing six police and a van driver.
The PCB was left with no option but to use neutral venues to stage its international matches.
Abu Dhabi and Dubai, which hosted Pakistan's match against Australia earlier this year, will again be used for three one-day internationals and two Twenty20 games between Pakistan and New Zealand in November.
The PCB has also asked the ICC to organize more test series between Pakistan and India in the next Future Tours Program (FTP). Butt said he expected the sub-continental archrivals to meet four times over the next eight years with Pakistan given an option to organize the series at a neutral venue.
"The ICC has given guarantee for the series that would be organized after every two years," Butt was quoted as saying. "They also accepted the series could be organized at a neutral venue until the time the (security) situation improves in Pakistan."
