The PCB and BCCI are scheduled to meet in Bahrain on 4 February on the controversy over the announcement by Indian Council Secretary Jay Shah on the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) calendar of events for 2023 and 2024. Without renewing Pakistan’s board of directors. Shah He is also the president of the ACC.
PCB has requested an emergency meeting of the ACC board, which PCB chairman Najam Sethi will announce next month.
“The ACC board has not met for a while and many decisions have been made, one of which was challenged,” Sethi said at a press conference. I was able to persuade him to do so, and I will attend.”
During the tenure of former PCB chairman Ramiz Raja, tensions have been building between the two boards, especially over the venue of the 2023 Asian Cup, which is scheduled to be held in Pakistan in September. But it was thrown into uncertainty when Shah, soon after a BCCI meeting last October, said the tournament would move to a neutral venue because India could not travel to Pakistan.
During his previous tenure, Sethi took an aggressive stance by taking legal route against the BCCI for not honouring an agreement to play bilateral series in 2014 and 2015, which the PCB claimed was a legal breach. The PCB eventually lost the case as the ICC dispute resolution committee said the claim “must fail” because the agreement signed between the boards carried a “moral obligation” but not a legal one, and the PCB had to later pay the BCCI a hefty compensation.
Sethi returned to the PCB office last month after Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif removed Raja and his Board to form a management committee to run cricket affairs. When asked if Pakistan would have an aggressive stance against the BCCI if India refuse to come to Pakistan for the Asia Cup, Sethi said:
“We have to look at what we can do but we can’t [fight] another case, but I can say that that case wasn’t handled properly and I think we didn’t give a good fight. But in the end, even the judge said that under a microscope the case was in favor of Pakistan, but through a telescope it was in favor of India. In short, essentially the case of Pakistan, their stance was that it is the [Indian] government that does not allow [travel to Pakistan]. “
Relations between Pakistan and India have deteriorated over the years as a result of stormy political relations between the two countries. India and Pakistan have not met in a bilateral series since Pakistan toured India in a limited series in 2012-13. Their encounters have been limited to ICC and ACC events, and while the Indian men’s team has not played a match in Pakistan since 2008, Pakistan recently visited India for the 2016 T20 World Cup. rice field.
After years of isolation following the attack on Sri Lanka’s team bus in Lahore in 2009, Pakistan has become a regular fixture in international cricket for the past three years, with nearly all regular members (except India) competing for red and white cricket. I visited the country for – ball cricket. The Asian Cup 2022 (postponed from 2021) was originally slated to be hosted by Pakistan, but was ultimately hosted by Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates.
PCB decided to host the 2023 Asian Cup, but Sethi didn’t like to reveal the option in front of the board.
“All the expected talks and possible