ECB chief terms Pakistan’s measures impressive, look forward to host Men in Green

• ECB Chief Executive impress with Lahore's Safe City Project.
• Harrison says he would take all the information home to assess future tour viability.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Chief Executive Tom Harrison says he was impressed with the security measures taken by Pakistan authorities to host international cricket events.

“We had a real look at the incredible work that is going on in Lahore with the Safe City Project and the extraordinary reaction to past incidents that has been put in place here. And that’s been incredibly impressive,” said Harrison while talking to PCB podcast.

Harrison who visited Pakistan to look at the security provision to assess the viability of an England tour of Pakistan in the future said that it was important to see the measures first-hand.

“Now we need to take the entire information home and start building towards a plan to put in place over the next few years to make it safe for us to consider coming here and fulfilling that obligation in the second half of 2022,” he said.

Talking about the upcoming Pakistan’s tour of England in 2020 the ECB Chief Executive said: “We love hosting Pakistan. It’s been fun to see the engagement of our English cricket community with the Pakistan cricket team, particularly in the short format.

“The Pakistan cricket team has added so much colour, vibrancy and atmosphere to our summers over the last few years. It will look modest without Pakistan visiting.”

Pakistan is scheduled to play three World Test Championship Tests and three T20Is against England.