For Playing 2023 World Cup Matches, Pakistan Cricket Board Chief Najam Sethi Proposes This

The confusion regarding the host venue of the 2023 Asia Cup still remains. While it was scheduled to be held in Pakistan, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah, who is also the head of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), in October last year said that India won't travel to Pakistan for the Asia Cup. After that statement, the deliberations have been going on regarding the host venue of the continental event. A hybrid model has also been proposed, in which the plan is to shift India's Asia Cup matches outside Pakistan, but no final decision has been made regarding that too.

Pakistan Cricket Board chief Najam Sethi, in an interview to Sports Tak on Thursday, talked about the proposed 'hybrid model' for the Asia Cup.

"The last meeting of the Asian Cricket Council was in Bahrain last month. I was part of that meeting. Two things that came out of the meeting were, one, if India doesn't play in Pakistan, then a neutral venue should be the option. Then a hybrid model can be embraced so that a few matches can take place in Pakistan and India's matches will be at a neutral venue because we are hosts and it's our right to play in Pakistan as well. And there are no security issues. And if that doesn't happen, I don't think we can play Asia Cup," Sethi said.

"The situation is, if India doesn't play in Pakistan, we will also not play in India. That's our view and our country's view of the whole situation. Then the decision was to deliberate more on hybrid model. We were told to present a model. We presented the model but nothing has been spoken about that," he added.

When asked to clarify that whether Pakistan were ready to take an "all or nothing" stand, Sethi said: "No, we never said all or nothing. We are saying if India