CHANDIGARH (SW): The Board of Control for Cricket in India has expressed willingness to extend all kinds of help to Afghanistan, who want to use an Indian venue to play their international matches.
Anurag Thakur , BCCI secretary told journalists in Chandigarh on May 14 that India will be more than happy to accommodate the Afghan cricket team for any kind of help for the promotion of the game.
"Afghanistan Cricket Board has requested BCCI that they want to come and play here, use the infrastructure and also to have one venue as the Afghan venue," Thakur was quoted saying by the Press Trust of India.
"Their (Afghanistan’s) board has requested to create one centre in India which can be dedicated to Afghanistan cricket”, he said.
Asked if any kind of financial assistance will be given to the Afghanistan team by the BCCI, Thakur said: "Let's see, let them write to BCCI. Any knowledge, any kind of help which Afghanistan board requires, we are more than happy to help them."
Afghanistan has used Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates as the venue for some of their bilateral series since 2010. The war-torn country has at least international standard stadiums but the grim security situation has kept international teams away so far.
Neighboring Pakistan could have been an option for Afghanistan but that too has not hosted any international team since a brazen attack on the visiting Sri Lankan team in 2009.
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