The BCCI secretary Jay Shah on Tuesday confirmed that Staff India is not going to be travelling to their neighbouring nation Pakistan for the ODI Asia Cup subsequent 12 months. As an alternative, the BCCI will insist on a impartial venue for the continental championship.
“Impartial venue for Asia Cup will not be unprecedented and we have now determined that we are going to not journey to Pakistan,” Shah, additionally the president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), mentioned after the BCCI’s Annual General Meeting in Mumbai. “I’ve determined that we are going to play at a impartial venue,” he added.
The 2022 version of Asia Cup, allotted to Sri Lanka passed off within the UAE. The 2023 version, a 50-over event, a pre-cursor to the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup in India, is meant to be held in Pakistan. The BCCI had initially stored the choice of sending its group to Pakistan however Shah clarified that the query now doesn’t come up.
The choice was made after seeing the political tensions between the 2 nations.
India and Pakistan haven’t performed in a bilateral collection since 2013. In reality, the final time that India contingent travelled to Pakistan was for 3 Exams and 5 ODIs method again in 2006. Whereas the hosts gained the Check collection 1-0, the Rahul Dravid-led Staff India decimated Pakistan 4-1 within the ODI leg.
Forward of the 2022 Asia Cup, which Sri Lanka gained by defeating Pakistan within the summit conflict, when Rohit Sharma was requested concerning the prospects of a bilateral collection between India and Pakistan, the Indian captain mentioned: “If I had the choice to reply this query, I might have given it. Respectable boards make these choices. This isn’t in our arms but when boards resolve to play, then we’ll play.”
