Sri Lanka’s A workforce will return house halfway from their ongoing collection in opposition to Pakistan Shaheens attributable to intense political protests in Islamabad. The PCB confirmed on Tuesday that following session with the Sri Lankan board, it has postponed the final two 50-over matches between Pakistan Shaheens and Sri Lanka A. The postponed matches had been scheduled to be performed in Rawalpindi on Wednesday and Friday after Pakistan Shaheens beat the guests by 108 runs within the first recreation in Islamabad on Monday.
The PCB stated the 2 boards will work collectively to finalise new dates to finish the collection.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf celebration of the previous Pakistan captain and prime minister Imran Khan began a protest march in the direction of essential Islamabad since Sunday. There have been incidents of clashes and violence reported between protestors and forces of regulation enforcement and safety.
The federal inside minister Mohsin Naqvi, additionally the chairman of the PCB, had introduced that the military had been known as in to quell the unrest.
In the meantime, The omnipotent board of the Worldwide Cricket Council will meet nearly on November 29 to finalise the much-delayed schedule of the Champions Trophy to be held in Pakistan in February-March subsequent yr.
The reason for the delay has been India’s refusal to play in Pakistan contemplating the tense relations between the 2 international locations. India has not toured Pakistan for the reason that 2008 Mumbai terror assaults.
The BCCI needs the match to be performed in a hybrid mannequin with India video games scheduled in a 3rd nation, ideally UAE, one thing that its Pakistani counterpart has not agreed to up to now.
“The ICC board will meet on November 29 to debate the Champions Trophy schedule,” an ICC spokesperson informed PTI on Tuesday.
The essential digital assembly takes locations two days earlier than BCCI secretary Jay Shah takes over as ICC chairman on December 1.
He and different board members can be eager to resolve the matter earlier than the brand new regime takes over.
With the impasse over the schedule and venue but to be damaged, questions have been raised in opposition to the present dispensation of the ICC together with chair Greg Barclay and CEO over why it didn’t resolve the problem earlier and left it for the eleventh hour.
With the Indian authorities firmly sticking to the established order, Champions Trophy in a hybrid mannequin with India video games exterior Pakistan is the most probably possibility.
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