Yorkshire have put their name forward to host a Pakistan 'home' Test at Headingley should a deal be agreed with the England and Wales Cricket Board.

Pakistan have struggled to find opposition this year due to the security situation in the country, with a tour by Australia and the Champions Trophy both postponed.

New Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt revealed this week the idea had been discussed with the ECB for a series of three Tests and five one-dayers as well as Twenty20 matches in England in 2010 and 2011.

Yorkshire chief executive Stewart Regan told the Yorkshire Post: "We have already made our points to the ECB and if the opportunity came along, then Yorkshire County Cricket Club would be more than happy to stage a Pakistan 'home' Test.

"We believe it would be popular and well received in light of our location and our access to the highly-populated Asian areas in and around Bradford.

"Nothing will happen in the short term, but we will wait to see what transpires."

Yorkshire's hopes depend on the £21million redevelopment of Headingley, which is scheduled to take place during 2009, and Regan is confident the financial crisis will not put the plans in jeopardy.

He continued: "As you can imagine, we are doing a lot of reworking of our financial projections; we are having a lot of discussions with our investors.

"We are hopeful that once all of those have been concluded that we will still be able to progress the pavilion as it was originally planned.

"Certainly, we are very optimistic that the programme can be commenced as per the original timescale, but the credit crunch brings new challenges with it and it's not challenges that are within the control of Yorkshire County Cricket Club."