Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Najam Sethi met with officials of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in the UAE and wishes to inform the body’s chairman, Jay Shah, who is also secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), meeting at the 2023 Asia Cup, according to sources. The sources revealed that Sethi is making every effort to ensure that the 2023 edition of the tournament hosted by Pakistan is not moved from his country. Last year, Jay Shah said the tournament will be held in a neutral venue.
“Najam Sethi came here for the opening ceremony of the International League T20 (ILT20, an Emirates Cricket Board T20 competition). He met ACC officials and expressed a desire to meet ACC President Jay Shah in February for a talk about the Asia Cup 2023.”, a source told ANI.
Earlier in December last year, former PCB chief Ramiz Raja said Pakistan could consider withdrawing from the 2023 Asia Cup if their tournament hosting rights are revoked due to the Indian team not traveling to their country.
“It’s not like we don’t have hosting rights and we’re begging to host it,” Ramiz told ESPNCricinfo on the sidelines of the Pakistan-England Test in Rawalpindi.
“We won the law scholarship. If India doesn’t come, they wouldn’t come. If the Asia Cup is taken away from Pakistan, we might be the ones to pull out,” he added.
Earlier in November, Ramiz Raja said that if India chooses not to participate in the Asia Cup to be held in Pakistan next year, Pakistan will also not travel to India to participate in the 50-over World Cup 2023.
Following Shah’s reported remarks, PCB had said that the overall impact of such statements has the potential to split the Asian and international cricketing communities and affect Pakistan’s visit to India for the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup and future ICC tournaments. events in India in the period 2024-2031. bicycle.
Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur said India will host the 2023 World Cup with all teams.
The sports minister said India is not afraid of any threat and it will not stop them from hosting the tournament. “It is an internal matter of BCCI and it will handle the issue smartly. We have not done anything wrong in organizing international tournaments. We have successfully organized a World Cup before and all teams were happy to participate. We will organize the tournament next year organize and all teams will participate in it,” Thakur said in October.
BCCI Chairman Roger Binny also said touring Pakistan for 2023 Asia Cup is not the decision of the board, but they will rely on the decision of the government. “That’s not our decision. We can’t say where our team should go. We need government approval if we leave the country, or other countries come here. We can’t make that decision on our own, we have to rely on about the government,” Binny had said.
Afterwards, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma also said that the Men in Blue would focus on the T20 World Cup and abide by the guidelines of the top cricket board in India, citing BCCI Secretary Jay Shah’s comments on the journey of India to Pakistan for 2023 Asia Cup. .
“My focus is on the World Cup. Whatever the BCCI decides, we will abide by it,” Rohit had said at a press conference ahead of the high-voltage clash against Pakistan.
Cricket teams stopped touring Pakistan after a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team in 2009. It was not until 2015 that international tours resumed in the country. Since then, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Australia, England and New Zealand are some of the teams that have toured Pakistan for bilateral series.
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