It has been virtually 5 months since Jay Shah, the secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), introduced that the Indian cricket workforce wouldn’t be taking part within the 2023 Asia Cup in Pakistan. Despite this, there was no progress in resolving the impasse between the 2 international locations. With solely six months remaining till the event, a brand new host for the Asia Cup has not been recognized.
Over the previous few months, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has threatened to boycott the 2023 Cricket World Cup, which is scheduled to happen in India. PCB chief Najam Sethi has offered an replace on the scenario, stating that it will likely be mentioned on the upcoming International Cricket Council (ICC) assembly. Sethi has additionally raised issues about India’s safety points, as many groups from all over the world are at present travelling to Pakistan with out incident. He has stored all choices open, together with the opportunity of not attending the occasion in India.
“I have kept my options open because when all teams are coming to Pakistan and have no issues with security. Then why is India worried about the security. In the same way we can also have security concerns over sending our team to India for the World Cup and I will be bringing this to the table at the coming meetings,” stated Najam Sethi in a press convention.
“Obviously we don’t support this stance (by India) because we want to hold the Asia Cup and remember it is not just about the Asia Cup and World Cup it is also about the Champions Trophy in 2025 in Pakistan. I had sought advice from the government and the situation is that we have to go by what our patron in chief tells us to do. If he says go and play in World Cup even if India doesn’t come for Asia Cup, what can we do? If he says don’t go it is a similar situation for us,” he added.
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Notably, India and Pakistan haven’t performed any bilateral cricket since January 2013. India final visited Pakistan in 2008 for the Asia Cup, whereas Pakistan’s most up-to-date journey to India was for the T20 World Cup in 2016.
