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 12 months. 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 because the 2008 Mumbai terror assaults.
The BCCI needs the event to be performed in a hybrid mannequin with India video games scheduled in a 3rd nation, one thing that its Pakistani counterpart has not agreed to to this point. “The ICC board will meet on November 29 to debate the Champions Trophy schedule,” an ICC spokesperson advised 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 could be eager to resolve the matter earlier than the brand new regime takes over.
Earlier this month, PCB wrote to the worldwide physique in search of clarification and particulars concerning BCCI’s choice, which had been communicated to the game’s World governing physique.
The PCB has sought a written response from the BCCI, together with the date it formally knowledgeable the ICC of its place. Amid the continuing uncertainty across the event, PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi expressed confidence in internet hosting the primary ICC occasion in Pakistan since 1996.
“We now have despatched them (ICC) the questions we had. We’re nonetheless ready for his or her response. I consider that sports activities and politics are separate and no nation ought to combine the 2. Even now I nonetheless have optimistic expectations concerning the Champions Trophy,” Naqvi had stated at a press interplay at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium.
PCB needed to tweak the event’s trophy tour after BCCI raised objections with the ICC because the earlier route was passing by way of three cities of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
The PCB initially introduced a route final week that included Muzaffarabad, the capital of PoK, and two different cities of the area. Whereas the locations have been eliminated following a grievance by BCCI, it has not been formally cancelled. The Trophy Tour will return to Pakistan in January after visiting the opposite seven Champions Trophy members.
With IANS inputs
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