India-Pakistan arrangement is more than cricket: Dravid

Previous India commander Rahul Dravid says resumption of cricketing ties with Pakistan depends to a great extent on political relations between the two nations.

"You have a considerable measure of issues, including security, the political circumstance in the two nations, and it can't, sadly, be disregarded. So choices like that, in my conviction, are best left to the sheets, to the concerned services," said Rajasthan Royals' coach, in Mumbai on Thursday, on the sidelines of an occasion where the Indian Premier League establishment vowed two percent of its yearly benefits towards improvement and welfare of the young lady youngster in India through tie-ups with two NGOs – Educate Girls and Aangan.

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A week ago, Pakistan Cricket Board boss Shaharyar Khan had a progression of gatherings with Board of Control for Cricket in India president Jagmohan Dalmiya and secretary Anurag Thakur amid which resumption of cricketing ties between the nations was talked about.

Khan said as a feature of a Memorandum of Understanding marked between the two Boards a year ago, Pakistan is prepared to host India in an arrangement, including three Tests, five One-dayers and two Twenty20 internationals, in the UAE in December.

Dravid, who was a piece of India's group that last visited Pakistan in 2004, says a ton of off-handle things need to be considered before cricket is given the thumbs up.

"In the event that you take a gander at it from the cricketing point of view it is continually energizing to play against Pakistan. It is fabulous to play against the Pakistan group and the Pakistan cricketers. In any case, clearly, an arrangement in the middle of India and Pakistan is more than cricket. You must be reasonable about it.

"In a perfect Utopian world, yes, we might want to see cricket and never like to see cricket influenced by anything, yet we don't live in an Utopian world," said Dravid.

Since 2007, India hasn't played a fitting two-sided Test arrangement with Pakistan basically because of political reasons, especially the 2008 Mumbai dread assaults which prompted suspension of cricketing ties.

The two nations played a short arrangement of three ODIs and two T20s in India in December 2012, else they have confronted one another just in ICC-composed occasions or the Asia Cup.

Picture: India and Pakistan fans at a cricket match between the two nation