Pakistan’s scheduled tour of Zimbabwe later this year is in danger of being cancelled due to a severe cash crunch in the African nation, according to reports.

Pakistan are supposed to travel to Zimbabwe for an all-format tour in July-August but the Zimbabwe Cricket Board has failed to a secure sponsor for the series and is looking at rescheduling or cancelling the series.

“Finances may not allow the Pakistan series to go ahead because we don’t get a lot from our TV contract and the production costs result in huge losses,” Zimbabwe Cricket managing director Faisal Hasnain was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.

“Given our current cash situation, in order to balance our books, we may have to either renegotiate the format or we may have to postpone it until such time as we are ready to play.”

Before the July-August contests, Zimbabwe had made plans for a limited-overs tri-series with Australia and Pakistan in June but that too looks unlikely at the moment.

“We are looking at all of that to see whether we have the tri-series only, the Pakistan series only, or we change the format,” Hasnain added. “We are just working through, considering our options at the moment.”

According to Cricbuzz, Zimbabwe approached the ICC last week hoping to get an advance payment on their future disbursements so that they can look to host international matches.