New Zealand Cricket is considering a request from the Pakistan Cricket Board to tour Pakistan later this year, ESPNCricinfo reported.
“NZC has received a request from the PCB chairman for New Zealand to play in Pakistan,” a New Zealand board spokesperson was quoted as saying.
“At the moment NZC is doing due diligence on the request and consulting with security providers, the government, and the players. We will respond to the PCB when this process has been completed,” the spokesperson added.
During New Zealand’s last Test tour of Pakistan in 2002, the series had to be cut short following a bomb explosion near the team hotel.
New Zealand, though, had later toured Pakistan for an ODI series. They were scheduled to tour the country in December 2009, but the attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in March that year left the tour cancelled.
In 2015, Zimbabwe toured the country for three ODIs and two T20Is. Earlier this year, the national team hosted three T20Is against an ICC World XI, a lone T20I against Sri Lanka before playing a three-match T20I series against West Indies.
