KARACHI: Pakistan cricket officers have opposed the shifting of this yr’s Asia Cup to Sri Lanka and are severely mulling boycotting the regional match if their proposal just isn’t accepted by the Asian Cricket Council.
Pakistan Cricket Board chief Najam Sethi met with officers of the Asian Cricket Council in Dubai on Tuesday and objected to the transfer to relocate the Asia Cup to Sri Lanka as an alternative of getting it within the UAE.
“Sethi has stressed the ACC should accept Pakistan’s revised hybrid model proposal schedule for the Asia Cup and if at all the majority of members wish to have it elsewhere it must be held in UAE like in 2018 and 2022.
“Sethi rubbished the considerations of the BCCI conveyed to the ACC that it could be too scorching to play in UAE in September by stating at the moment that the BCCI had held its IPL in UAE in September to November in 2020,” one reliable source in the PCB said.
“I can inform you this a lot Sethi has taken a brand new hybrid mannequin schedule to the ACC and it’s a proposal they should not reject now,” he disclosed.
The source said the PCB was surprised to learn that the Sri Lankan board with back door support from BCCI had told the ACC it wants to host the Asia Cup this year.
“It got here as a shock as a result of earlier on the final ACC board assembly in February, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan had rejected the Lankan proposal and it was agreed Pakistan would stay the host.”
Before leaving for Dubai, Sethi had instructed his officers to begin engaged on having a 3 to 4 nation occasion in Pakistan this yr within the Asia Cup window if the continental occasion just isn’t held within the nation.
Pakistan Cricket Board chief Najam Sethi met with officers of the Asian Cricket Council in Dubai on Tuesday and objected to the transfer to relocate the Asia Cup to Sri Lanka as an alternative of getting it within the UAE.
“Sethi has stressed the ACC should accept Pakistan’s revised hybrid model proposal schedule for the Asia Cup and if at all the majority of members wish to have it elsewhere it must be held in UAE like in 2018 and 2022.
“Sethi rubbished the considerations of the BCCI conveyed to the ACC that it could be too scorching to play in UAE in September by stating at the moment that the BCCI had held its IPL in UAE in September to November in 2020,” one reliable source in the PCB said.
“I can inform you this a lot Sethi has taken a brand new hybrid mannequin schedule to the ACC and it’s a proposal they should not reject now,” he disclosed.
The source said the PCB was surprised to learn that the Sri Lankan board with back door support from BCCI had told the ACC it wants to host the Asia Cup this year.
“It got here as a shock as a result of earlier on the final ACC board assembly in February, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan had rejected the Lankan proposal and it was agreed Pakistan would stay the host.”
Before leaving for Dubai, Sethi had instructed his officers to begin engaged on having a 3 to 4 nation occasion in Pakistan this yr within the Asia Cup window if the continental occasion just isn’t held within the nation.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com