Tense Pakistan and India standoff poses threat to Cricket World Cup fixtures

13.05.2023 - 09:01 theguardian.com

The men’s Cricket World Cup is less than five months away and could yet see its schedule plunge into chaos amid an ongoing impasse involving Pakistan, India and the Asia Cup.

The six-team Asia Cup is scheduled for September and has become a point of principle for the hosts Pakistan after India – staging the 50-over men’s World Cup starting in October – indicated they cannot send their national team to the country.

In response, the Pakistan Cricket Board has proposed a “hybrid model” in which India’s Asia Cup matches – including up to three blockbuster games against Pakistan – and the second half of the tournament are held in the United Arab Emirates.

Najam Sethi, chair of the PCB, says this offer needs to be accepted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India or the Asia Cup will be called off.

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The BCCI will not support Najam Sethi's proposed hybrid model of hosting the Asia Cup wherein four preliminary round and two super four games will be held in Pakistan with India's matches and the final taking place in a neutral country. It is understood that the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) chairman Jay Shah, who is also the secretary of the BCCI, during an informal discussion with some of the continental body's members in Ahmedabad has made the Indian board's stand clear. For a tournament to happen at a neutral venue, the all-powerful executive body of the ACC needs to take the final call, and therein lies the problem.