Pakistan may offer to switch its home series against India early next year to India if the Indian government does not clear the tour over security worries, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ejaz Butt said. “Pakistan cricket has already suffered a lot because of teams refusing to play at our venues. We are counting on India to break the ice,” Butt said on Monday. “But if the Indians are not permitted by their government to tour Pakistan for any reason then we can look at the option of swapping the series with India.” Doubts have emerged over India's tour to play three Tests, five one-dayers and a Twenty20 game beginning in January after the Indian government stopped a junior hockey team from touring Pakistan at the last moment. Pakistan cricket has suffered heavily this year due to the refusal of teams and players to tour following a series of suicide bombings. In August, the ICC postponed the Champions Trophy after facing a possible boycott from five of the eight teams in the field. Windies coach blames domestic game for loss Frustrated West Indies coach John Dyson on Monday criticised the standard of the nation's domestic game, saying that it was failing to produce players ready for the rigors of international cricket. The West Indies, with four debutants in the squad, suffered a 3-0 whitewash against Pakistan - a defeat Dyson hoped will provide several lessons for the future. “Unfortunately the frustrating part is that international sport is about winning, the frustration as coach is that the newcomers don't have the basic skills for this kind of cricket,” said Dyson, a former Australian batsman. Dyson, who took over last year, said he has been telling the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to improve the standard of regional cricket. “If you look at the Australian system, by the time a player comes into the Australian team he has played umpteen number of matches in the Sheffield Shield cricket which is very good quality...so he is ready to play internationally.” Dyson, who also coached Sri Lanka, said that the quality of regional West Indies cricket was “nowhere near” the standard of Australian Sheffield Shield cricket, and was generating players that “are unprepared to play against international teams.” Dyson urged the newly called-up players to work hard. “At this level it's about trying to win matches, it shouldn't be about trying to teach the players how to play international matches,” said the coach.
