Pakistan Cricket Board chief executive Wasim Khan is trying to convince Cricket Australia and the players’ union to agree to an Australia A tour of the country as the next step in the effort to attract a full Australian team back there for the first time in over 20 years.

Wasim is in Australia for the two-Test series, the first of which starts at the Gabba on Thursday, and is eager to progress talks about a long-awaited Australian return to Pakistan, particularly with Sri Lanka having just signed to play the first Tests in the country since the attack on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore 2009.

According to the ICC Future Tours Programme, Australia aren’t due to play Tests away to Pakistan until 2022 but Wasim wants to get the ball rolling with an Australia A tour and plans to meet with CA chief Kevin Roberts, who travelled to Pakistan in September with CA security boss Sean Carroll, and Australian Cricketers’ Association CEO Alistair Nicholson in coming days to discuss a potential visit.

“One of the areas I’d like to discuss with Cricket Australia is around a potential Australia A tour before that,” he said. “I’m meeting the players’ association in Melbourne while I’m over here.