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By Our Special Correspondent
HOBART, JAN. 13. India's captain Sourav Ganguly has said there should not be any uncertainty over the Indian cricket team's visit to Pakistan in March-April 2004. "We are committed to it and we will go,'' said Ganguly at the Bellerive Oval on Tuesday afternoon. The last time an Indian cricket team visited Pakistan for a Test series was in 1989. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have not finalised the itinerary that will involve three Tests and five one-day internationals, but the BCCI approved the tour, awaiting official government clearance, at its recent Working Committee meeting in Kolkata.
BCCI wants tour deferred
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has written to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) asking it to defer the Indian team's tour during March-April by five to seven days to give the Indian players more time to rest. The request was sent after some of the senior Indian players, now playing in the VB tri-series in Australia, conveyed their feelings to the BCCI president, Jagmohan Dalmiya. According to a source here, the BCCI has also agreed to play the three-Test series first and the five-match ODI series later "considering that the interest in the Test series will wane if played after the limited-overs series.'' The source said if the Indian team reached the three-match finals in Australia, would be able to return home only after February 10, the day the last final is slated. The Board wanted the players to rest at least three weeks before departing for Pakistan. The Indians would immediately go to Bangladesh to fulfil an earlier commitment the Board had made to the BCB. India last toured Pakistan in 1989. The source said the Indian team's tour itinerary would only be released after the two Boards finalised the programme.
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