KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) performing chairman Zaka Ashraf will push for the rustic’s ODI World Cup fits 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 fits in Pakistan owing to geopolitical tensions, and after months of hypothesis across the continental match, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) introduced that the development will probably be staged in a hybrid style with 4 video games in Pakistan and 9 in Sri Lanka from August 31 to September 17.
However, the PCB not too long ago conveyed to the ICC and the BCCI that the nationwide workforce’s participation within the World Cup is matter to executive clearance because of the annoying members of the family between the 2 nations.
Ashraf and the PCB leader working officer, Salman Taseer are in Durban to wait the ICC conferences the place they’re anticipated to speak about India’s refusal to ship its workforce to Pakistan mentioning safety causes.
Mazari additionally claimed that, like him, every other participants of the particular committee, shaped via Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to counsel whether or not the nationwide workforce will have to commute to India for the World Cup, additionally felt of their private capacities that it was once time Pakistan took a robust stand on India refusing to excursion the rustic.
Sharif had shaped a high-level committee, headed via Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto, to make a decision at the nationwide cricket workforce’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, said Mazari.
Before Ashraf was named chairman of a new cricket management committee by the government to run the PCB affairs, his predecessor Najam Sethi had negotiated the deal with the ACC members, including BCCI, that Pakistan should be allowed to host 4-5 Asia Cup matches at Home while rest could be held in Sri Lanka under the hybrid model.
A PCB source also said that Sethi had prepared a strong case for the ICC to increase Pakistan’s revenue share in the new financial model for member countries.
“Sethi had argued that if India was once to get the lion’s proportion of the ICC revenues Pakistan additionally sought after an building up in its proportion as with out its participation, the ICC would no longer have the ability to signal profitable broadcast and different sponsorship offers for its new cycle of ICC occasions from 2023-2027,” said the source.
It remains to be seen how Ashraf would plead for an increase in revenue at the ICC meetings.
“The state of affairs is apparent (that) if there’s no Pakistan-India fits in ICC occasions, the opposite forums stand to lose out on earnings,” 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 fits in Pakistan owing to geopolitical tensions, and after months of hypothesis across the continental match, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) introduced that the development will probably be staged in a hybrid style with 4 video games in Pakistan and 9 in Sri Lanka from August 31 to September 17.
However, the PCB not too long ago conveyed to the ICC and the BCCI that the nationwide workforce’s participation within the World Cup is matter to executive clearance because of the annoying members of the family between the 2 nations.
Ashraf and the PCB leader working officer, Salman Taseer are in Durban to wait the ICC conferences the place they’re anticipated to speak about India’s refusal to ship its workforce to Pakistan mentioning safety causes.
Mazari additionally claimed that, like him, every other participants of the particular committee, shaped via Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to counsel whether or not the nationwide workforce will have to commute to India for the World Cup, additionally felt of their private capacities that it was once time Pakistan took a robust stand on India refusing to excursion the rustic.
Sharif had shaped a high-level committee, headed via Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto, to make a decision at the nationwide cricket workforce’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, said Mazari.
Before Ashraf was named chairman of a new cricket management committee by the government to run the PCB affairs, his predecessor Najam Sethi had negotiated the deal with the ACC members, including BCCI, that Pakistan should be allowed to host 4-5 Asia Cup matches at Home while rest could be held in Sri Lanka under the hybrid model.
A PCB source also said that Sethi had prepared a strong case for the ICC to increase Pakistan’s revenue share in the new financial model for member countries.
“Sethi had argued that if India was once to get the lion’s proportion of the ICC revenues Pakistan additionally sought after an building up in its proportion as with out its participation, the ICC would no longer have the ability to signal profitable broadcast and different sponsorship offers for its new cycle of ICC occasions from 2023-2027,” said the source.
It remains to be seen how Ashraf would plead for an increase in revenue at the ICC meetings.
“The state of affairs is apparent (that) if there’s no Pakistan-India fits in ICC occasions, the opposite forums stand to lose out on earnings,” the supply added.