England will host two Test matches and two Twenty20 internationals between Pakistan and Australia in July 2010.

Pakistan are currently unable to host international cricket because of security concerns, which were heightened following a terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore in March.

The ECB also announced that England will take on Pakistan in four Tests, five one-day internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals in England in August and September of next year.

"The Pakistan team performed outstandingly well in the World Twenty20 tournament in England and were worthy world champions," Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman, said. "The passion of the support for their team in England demonstrated why this country is an ideal venue for these matches against Australia."

Clarke has agreed to serve as chairman of a task force set up by the International Cricket Council to devise ways of helping the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to maintain its international fixture schedule. "The Pakistan Cricket Board is faced with a very challenging situation at present and ECB in its role as a member of the global cricket community is keen to offer PCB all possible assistance at such a difficult time," he said. "I am delighted to take on this role and will be liaising closely with my colleagues at PCB in the coming weeks and months.

"The warm relations between our two Boards has developed further under the leadership of the current PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt, with whom I enjoy an excellent working relationship, and ECB is delighted to support Pakistan in staging these matches."