MUMBAI: As a first step towards resumption of international cricket in the country, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has engaged a security company for a three-year period.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Najam Sethi told a representative of the Federation of International Cricketers (FICA) will accompany the security company to personally monitor the security situation in Lahore,” he added.
During the four-day visit, the security team would try to find out whether Pakistan could manage to provide all the necessary security arrangements to the teams and would work with the government of Punjab “to get assurances that all the recommendations submitted by security experts of the different countries who visited Lahore to watch the final of the second Pakistan Super League (PSL) season have been incorporated by the government in its SOPs, or not.
The ICC will be spending US$400,000 on every visit of the security team to Pakistan each year.
