Bureau Report
Lahore: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced main and associate sponsors of Pakistan men’s national cricket team for all three formats.
PCB and renowned beverage company have announced a one-year extension as the principal partner. The partnership will run initially until 30 June 2021, during which period Pakistan will take on England, feature in ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, home series against Zimbabwe and South Africa, and away series against South Africa, New Zealand and Zimbabwe.
Easy Paisa will be the associate partner of the Pakistan men’s national cricket team for the upcoming tour of England.
PCB Director Commercial Badar Hamid is delighted to reach an agreement with PCB for further 12 months.
“Despite working with a backdrop of a challenging economic climate, I am delighted that we have reached an acceptable agreement with the beverage company to continue as a principal partner for, at least, the next 12 months,” he said.
Pakistan are in England preparing for a three-Test series starting in Manchester on August 5, with those matches set to be followed by three Twenty20 internationals.
“A Pakistan player has been cleared to return to the squad after undergoing a precautionary period of self-isolation,” said an England and Wales Cricket Board spokesman.
“The player had returned a positive test result for the remnants of a previous Covid-19 infection and in consultation with Public Health England and a virologist, a safety-first approach was taken to isolate the player.
“The player has since returned two negative tests with no risk of infection to other players and staff.”
Although the ECB did not name the player, Pakistani media identified him as uncapped left-arm spinner Kashif Bhatti.
Thursday’s announcement came on the same day that England fast bowler Jofra Archer was ruled out of the ongoing second Test against the West Indies at Old Trafford after breaching bio-security regulations.
