Cricket Australia (CA) chief Nick Hockley has said that Australia will be open to hosting arch-rivals India and Pakistan on their soil in hopes of reviving a series that the world wants to see.

The two sides last met in a bilateral series in 2012-13 and since then, their meeting has been confined to events sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Asia Cup. The reason behind this has been the hostility between the two nations owing to issues pertaining to terrorism and Kashmir.

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ramiz Raja in January proposed an annual four-nation T20 series involving Pakistan, India, Australia, and England to be hosted on a rotational basis by the teams.

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Though ICC didn’t encourage this idea, Cricket Australia Chief Executive Hockley said his board, while not having discussed the proposal, is interested in hosting Pakistan and India in a tri-series.

"Personally, I really like the tri-series concept. It's worked well in the past. We'd be very open to hosting ... matches. There are really big communities of both India and Pakistan living in Australia. It's a contest that everyone wants to see in world cricket and if we can help support further opportunities we would love to do that,” he told reporters in Rawalpindi.

Pakistan and India are scheduled to play each other at the ICC-sanctioned T20 World Cup in Australia on October 23 at the MCG.

(Reuters inputs)