Out-of-form India avoiding facing Pak: PCB

I get a feeling they are avoiding playing us because Pakistan team is doing very well. What I know is that perhaps the Indian board doesnt want to play at this time because it is nervous that if their team loses against us the reaction of their people could be strong, he added.

The bilateral cricket ties between the two countries have been frozen since the Mumbai terror attacks in November,2008. India cancelled a scheduled FTP tour to Pakistan in early 2009 and also sidelined a series at home against Pakistan this year. Pakistani players are also being kept out of the Indian Premier League for the third successive edition.

Ashraf said the Indian board had so far not responded to any efforts by Pakistan to resume ties.

T20s runaway train: Jones

Melbourne: Twenty20 cricket is like a runaway train,which would crush Tests and One-dayers if it is not handled properly,warned former Australian cricketer Dean Jones. Jones said the kind of money which private T20 leagues are offering is too good to resist and the ICC must pay the players well for representing their country in Test and ODI format.

Jones argued that if representing the nation was not rewarding enough financially,the players would automatically be more drawn towards lucrative private leagues. T20 cricket cannot be stopped. It is a runaway train prepared to kill everything in its way. I am not joking when I say this. If we dont handle T20 cricket properly,it will crush everything in its way,including the Test and one-day formats, Jones wrote in his column for Sydney Morning Herald.