Attributable to logistical points and the extreme warmth within the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have rejected the hybrid format proposed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for the Asia Cup in 2023.
The hybrid idea stated that India would play all of its video games within the UAE and the remaining matches would happen in Pakistan in September of this yr.
“We’ve got written to the ACC to say that we’re towards the hybrid mannequin,” Mohan de Silva, the SLC secretary, instructed ESPNcricinfo. “However past that, no last determination has been reached. It’s very popular within the UAE at the moment of yr.”
SLC affords to play in Sri Lanka
SLC can be in favor of internet hosting the competitors in Sri Lanka whereas Pakistan retains the internet hosting rights. This may be much like what occurred the earlier yr, when Sri Lanka held the match within the United Arab Emirates due to political and financial unrest there.
“If the provide is there to play the match in Sri Lanka, we’ll take it. Pakistan would be the official hosts,” Mohan de Silva stated.
However the PCB is but adamant on their stand to play the match in Pakistan.
“The PCB offered a hybrid mannequin that resolves problems with logistics and journey and manufacturing,” a PCB official instructed ESPNcricinfo. “The board reiterated its place that we received’t play the Asia Cup if the Pakistan plus impartial venue mannequin is rejected.”
India and Pakistan, two groups with one of many best sporting rivalries, haven’t performed towards one another on house soil since 2012. As an alternative, their matches are restricted to multinational tournaments held on impartial grounds.
The chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Administration Committee, Najam Sethi, has known as for a rational strategy to sort out the disaster that threatens the profitable internet hosting of the Asia Cup and Pakistan’s participation within the ODI World Cup this yr. He made these feedback in the course of the Nationwide Meeting Standing Committee on Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) assembly.
Sethi revealed that the Pakistan group’s probabilities of touring to India for the ODI World Cup are slim, as the 2 international locations haven’t performed towards one another on one another’s soil in recent times. Subsequently, the continued disaster could trigger problem in Pakistan’s participation in worldwide cricket occasions.
“In case of India’s refusal to journey to Pakistan to compete within the Asia Cup, likelihood is there that the Pakistan authorities wouldn’t permit the Males in Inexperienced to cross the borders for his or her World Cup participation. In that case, cricket would be the final sufferer,” Sethi stated.
“There needs to be a center strategy to resolve issues that certainly threaten the sleek internet hosting of ICC and ACC occasions. In case of India’s refusal to journey to Pakistan for the Asia Cup, the federal government is not going to permit us to journey to India to determine within the World Cup matches,” he added.
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