Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani on Friday (March 6) made startling revelations of how the board persuaded the international teams to tour Pakistan.

Speaking at the National Assembly Standing Committee on Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) in Islamabad on Friday, Mani revealed that the PCB, when he wasn’t in charge, had to give extra money to West Indies players to visit Pakistan in the 2018 series in Karachi.

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The PCB chief further claimed that the board had paid a whopping USD 25,000 (INR 18.5 lakhs) each to the West Indies players for a Twenty20 International series in Pakistan.

He, though didn’t disclose the team’s name, said the players of another team for another tour of Pakistan were paid USD 15,000 (INR 11.1 lakhs) each by the previous PCB set-up.

Meanwhile, Mani insisted that ever since he took the charge in 2018, no extra money had been paid to any touring team to play in Pakistan and even claimed the recent tours by Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were all official and no extra money was paid to anyone by the PCB.

Well, Mani’s claims pointed at West Indies’ tour of Pakistan in 2018 when the two teams played in a 3-match T20I series.

Mani was quoted as saying by DAWN on Friday: “But this PCB regime has not paid anything extra to any player for playing in Pakistan. Pakistan hosted Sri Lanka and other teams which was a big boost for Pakistan cricket.”

Noteworthy, no top international team has toured Pakistan ever since the terror attack on Sri Lankan team bus in 2009, though, Zimbabwe, West Indies, Bangladesh, and Islanders have successfully returned to the country besides the World XI tour.

(With DAWN Inputs)