New Zealand Cricket officials would have good cause to wonder about where Pakistan is coming from in terms of its claim that it is seeking compensation for New Zealand's non-participation in a triangular series in September.

Pakistan Cricket Board director Chishty Mujahid commented to Reuters earlier today that New Zealand had pulled out of the triangular series and should therefore be required to compensate Pakistan for the loss of revenues.

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) are not commenting on the claim today which has come as their own home international season kicks off in Christchurch.

However, on July 19 earlier this year NZC chief executive Martin Snedden spelled out very clearly that all that New Zealand was ever involved in with regard to a one-day tournament was a "discussion".

Then at an International Cricket Council meeting in London, Snedden agreed to a talk with Brigadier Munawar Rana about the tournament. Australia were involved as well.

In an interview with CricInfo on July 19, Snedden said: "I said I would not have our players play any cricket in August. I had promised our players a complete break in July and August. They had already earlier agreed to break into an earlier spell in order to make the re-scheduled tour of Pakistan in May.

"I also wasn't going to be prepared to go to a venue that was going to cost us a huge amount of money to get to," he said.

Under the Future Tours Agreement (FTA), teams travelling to countries are required to pay the fares and the players' fees while host countries pick up the internal costs.

"None of it fitted in," Snedden said.

He said Pakistan had made a statement that New Zealand had agreed in principle to the tournament in Kenya but that was not the case at all.

Several venues had been mentioned including Morocco, Australia, England and Sri Lanka.

The day after saying New Zealand had heard nothing from Pakistan about playing in Kenya, a formal proposal was received from Pakistan.

Under its plan, New Zealand would have been required to assemble on August 21 for five matches in Kenya in the last week of August and the first week of September.

"That didn't suit us," Snedden said. He wrote to Pakistan informing them of that.

The other factor about the issue was that Australia were committed under the FTA to play Pakistan in a one-day series, but New Zealand wasn't.

Snedden also re-iterated at the time that New Zealand was committed to meeting its obligation to complete its abandoned Test series which occurred after a bomb blast killed French engineers outside the New Zealand team hotel.

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