KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) performing chairman Zaka Ashraf will push for the nation’s ODI World Cup matches at impartial venues on the ICC conferences in Durban this week, the Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination (Sports), Ahsan Mazari, has mentioned.
“Zaka Ashraf will bring up the issue of why can’t Pakistan’s matches in the World Cup be played at neutral venues when the Indian team can’t travel to Pakistan for the Asia Cup,” he mentioned.
India has refused to play its Asia Cup matches in Pakistan owing to geopolitical tensions, and after months of hypothesis across the continental match, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) introduced that the occasion might be staged in a hybrid mannequin with 4 video games in Pakistan and 9 in Sri Lanka from August 31 to September 17.
However, the PCB just lately conveyed to the ICC and the BCCI that the nationwide group’s participation within the World Cup is topic to authorities clearance because of the tense relations between the 2 nations.
Ashraf and the PCB chief working officer, Salman Taseer are in Durban to attend the ICC conferences the place they’re anticipated to debate India’s refusal to ship its group to Pakistan citing safety causes.
Mazari additionally claimed that, like him, another members of the particular committee, shaped by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to advocate whether or not the nationwide group ought to journey to India for the World Cup, additionally felt of their private capacities that it was time Pakistan took a robust stance on India refusing to tour the nation.
Sharif had shaped a high-level committee, headed by Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto, to determine on the nationwide cricket group’s participation within the World Cup in India.
“I want our World Cup matches at neutral venues if India doesn’t want to send its team to Pakistan for Asia Cup. If they have security problems in Pakistan according to the Indian board, then we can also question the security situation in India,” mentioned Mazari.
Before Ashraf was named chairman of a brand new cricket administration committee by the federal government to run the PCB affairs, his predecessor Najam Sethi had negotiated the take care of the ACC members, together with BCCI, that Pakistan ought to be allowed to host 4-5 Asia Cup matches at residence whereas relaxation might be held in Sri Lanka beneath the hybrid mannequin.
A PCB supply additionally mentioned that Sethi had ready a robust case for the ICC to extend Pakistan’s income share within the new monetary mannequin for member nations.
“Sethi had argued that if India was to get the lion’s share of the ICC revenues Pakistan also wanted an increase in its share as without its participation, the ICC would not be able to sign lucrative broadcast and other sponsorship deals for its new cycle of ICC events from 2023-2027,” mentioned the supply.
It stays to be seen how Ashraf would plead for a rise in income on the ICC conferences.
“The situation is clear (that) if there is no Pakistan-India matches in ICC events, the other boards stand to lose out on revenue,” the supply added.
“Zaka Ashraf will bring up the issue of why can’t Pakistan’s matches in the World Cup be played at neutral venues when the Indian team can’t travel to Pakistan for the Asia Cup,” he mentioned.
India has refused to play its Asia Cup matches in Pakistan owing to geopolitical tensions, and after months of hypothesis across the continental match, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) introduced that the occasion might be staged in a hybrid mannequin with 4 video games in Pakistan and 9 in Sri Lanka from August 31 to September 17.
However, the PCB just lately conveyed to the ICC and the BCCI that the nationwide group’s participation within the World Cup is topic to authorities clearance because of the tense relations between the 2 nations.
Ashraf and the PCB chief working officer, Salman Taseer are in Durban to attend the ICC conferences the place they’re anticipated to debate India’s refusal to ship its group to Pakistan citing safety causes.
Mazari additionally claimed that, like him, another members of the particular committee, shaped by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to advocate whether or not the nationwide group ought to journey to India for the World Cup, additionally felt of their private capacities that it was time Pakistan took a robust stance on India refusing to tour the nation.
Sharif had shaped a high-level committee, headed by Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto, to determine on the nationwide cricket group’s participation within the World Cup in India.
“I want our World Cup matches at neutral venues if India doesn’t want to send its team to Pakistan for Asia Cup. If they have security problems in Pakistan according to the Indian board, then we can also question the security situation in India,” mentioned Mazari.
Before Ashraf was named chairman of a brand new cricket administration committee by the federal government to run the PCB affairs, his predecessor Najam Sethi had negotiated the take care of the ACC members, together with BCCI, that Pakistan ought to be allowed to host 4-5 Asia Cup matches at residence whereas relaxation might be held in Sri Lanka beneath the hybrid mannequin.
A PCB supply additionally mentioned that Sethi had ready a robust case for the ICC to extend Pakistan’s income share within the new monetary mannequin for member nations.
“Sethi had argued that if India was to get the lion’s share of the ICC revenues Pakistan also wanted an increase in its share as without its participation, the ICC would not be able to sign lucrative broadcast and other sponsorship deals for its new cycle of ICC events from 2023-2027,” mentioned the supply.
It stays to be seen how Ashraf would plead for a rise in income on the ICC conferences.
“The situation is clear (that) if there is no Pakistan-India matches in ICC events, the other boards stand to lose out on revenue,” the supply added.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com