Ahead of the ODI series against England, MSD faced a bunch of queries from the media personnel. It was his first media appearance after he had left captaincy.
FICA stated that the security conditions are "at an extremely elevated level" in Pakistan and asserted that "an acceptable level of participant security and safety cannot be expected or guaranteed".
There were several e-mails exchanged between ECB and the BCCI CEO Rahul Johri in which it was asked whether the English squad would be taken care of by the BCCI or not.