Pakistan Cricket Board has picked 10 former cricket players as goodwill ambassadors who will arrive in India with Pakistan Cricket team next month.
Executive Coordination committee (ECC) of Pakistan Cricket Board met on Friday under the Chairmanship of its President, Mohammad Zaka Asrhaf and selected 10 former players.
PCB in a statement said, "These players will be goodwill ambassadors for Pakistan Cricket and can help in improving the cricketing relations between two countries".
10 Goodwill ambassadors are Hanif Mohammad, Imtiaz Ahmed, Majid Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Mushtaq Mohammad, Imran Khan, Javed Burki, Wasim Bari, Intikhab Alam and Sadiq Mohammad
Spokesman of PCB said, "The selected players are those who made their debuts in 50, 60s and 70s and we will consider the others in future events as well".
"The committee members hoped that this tour will bring both the cricketing nations closer and will play an important role in strengthening the future relations between both the countries," he added.
Pakistan and India have decided to resume cricket series between the countries after a 5 years long gap. Pakistan is planned to visit India in December end.
This tour is being considered as a great move to reform ties between the two countries.
Pakistan and India will play 3 ODIs and 2 T20 matches from 25 December 2012 to 7 January 2013.
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