Under a serious confidence building initiative after PM Narendra Modi's short haul at Lahore, Government of India allowed BCCI to conduct India Pakistan cricket series. To begin with, the government allowed players of both the countries to play with the cricket bat handle, then with stumps and finally if everything goes right with bat.
"Indian government asked us to play with the cricket bat handles as a starter and to support the beginning of the new dawn between India and Pakistan relationship," said BCCI President Sashank Manohar "Pakistan's government had already allowed us to play an Indo-Pak series and now as Indian government has cleared the proposal we are working on other nitty grities like permission of ICC, talking to ESPN Star and other sports channel companies for selling the rights of live streaming of the match."
Shashank Manohar in an exclusive chat with India Satire correspondent told that the board has sent the message to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shahryar Khan to prepare for the series between two countries.
"He was very happy with the positive development. He told me that even if Indian government had allowed Pakistani cricketers to land on Indian pitches and play with grass they wouldn't have any issues," said Shashank Manohar.
President told correspondent that there wouldn't have been any impact on the probable revenue for both BCCI and PCB from Indo-Pak series even if the government had allowed them to play using grass.
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