India’s Rishabh Pant hits a 4 through the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2021 on the Dubai Worldwide Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on October 24, 2021. — ReutersBCCI desires matches in Dubai as an alternative of Lahore.Supply says India to face agency on its stance.There have been hopes of India coming to Pakistan earlier.
In a serious setback for cricket, India has determined to face agency on its choice to not ship its workforce to Pakistan for subsequent yr’s Champions Trophy, Indian media reported on Friday.
Sources conversant in the matter advised the Indian Specific that the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) has knowledgeable the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) of its safety considerations and requested that its matches be held in Dubai as an alternative of Lahore.
“The BCCI has conveyed their concerns regarding Champions Trophy matches in Pakistan. They want to play matches at a neutral venue and Dubai is the strong candidate to host the fixtures involving the Men in Blue,” a supply advised Occasions of India.
One other supply, in the meantime, knowledgeable the Indian Specific that this has been the BCCI’s long-standing stance and that there was no cause to vary that.
“We have written to them and asked them to shift our games to Dubai,” the supply added.
Reacting to the event, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi advised India to not count on good gestures from Islamabad after New Delhi reportedly rejected the concept of travelling to Lahore for the Champions Trophy.
“In recent years, Pakistan has shown a lot of good gestures. However, we hope that we are not expected to show good gestures always,” Naqvi, who can also be the inside minister, advised reporters in Lahore.
Pakistan is decided to carry your complete 2025 Champions Trophy in Pakistan from February 19 to March 9 in three cities — Karachi, Lahore, and Rawalpindi.
To handle logistical and safety considerations, it instructed staging all of India’s matches in Lahore, which is close to the Wagah border, to simplify preparations.
Pakistan is decided to carry your complete 2025 Champions Trophy in Pakistan from February 19 to March 9 in three cities — Karachi, Lahore, and Rawalpindi.
To handle logistical and safety considerations, it instructed staging all of India’s matches in Lahore, which is close to the Wagah border, to simplify preparations.
India has not performed a world match in Pakistan since 2008. Final yr, the BCCI declined to ship a workforce to Pakistan for the Asia Cup, resulting in a hybrid format with later phases held in Sri Lanka.
Nevertheless, Pakistan did go to India quickly after for the 2023 ODI World Cup, the place they fell wanting reaching the semi-finals.
The upsetting improvement comes as throughout his go to to Islamabad on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation assembly in October, India’s Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar had reportedly mentioned the potential for the Indian cricket workforce coming to Pakistan for the ICC occasion, the media studies added.
