It was a cricket tour that saw even the Prime Minister get involved in, but just over a year later, the Blackcaps are heading back to Pakistan.
Last September, the NZ team abandonned their tour after a "specific and credible" threat was made towards their players.
The details of that aren't publicly known, but it's been confirmed the Blackcaps will tour Pakistan twice in the next seven months.
Last time the Blackcaps were in Pakistan, Daryl Mitchell walked out of COVID-19 isolation, before being hurriedly helped home the next day.
"I guess it was one of those things that was out of our control," he said.
That was to be their first tour there since 2003, but fast forward 15 months, and they will be heading back.
"Pakistan authorities are leaving no stone unturned," said NZ Cricket Players Association boss Heath Mills. "The amount of resources they're putting into the tour to ensure the players will be safe - the hotel, the ground and all of the transfers - is phenomenal."
While other countries have visited this year, the Blackcaps' history of touring Pakistan has been marred by mayhem.
In 2002, a suicide bomber killed 14 people outside their hotel. Seven years later, they cancelled their tour, after an attack on the Sri Lankan team bus.
Mills was part of a security check to Pakistan last month and while nothing is guaranteed, he was impressed.
"All we need to insist on is that there are daily security risk assessments and the appropriate level of security management planning in place to insist on the team's safety and to mitigate that risk," he said.
That has put the players at ease.
"For us to go to Pakistan, and take them on with some test cricket and with a couple of one-dayers at the end, it'll be really cool," Mitchell said.
"It'll be a great challenge. It's going to be tough, but we're really looking forward to it."
