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Pakistan cricketer Ahmed Shehzad has taken a dig on the BCCI and the Indian goverment.© ACC
After months of tussle between the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI), the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) lastly introduced that the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025 will likely be performed beneath a hybrid mannequin. PCB had been awarded the rights to host your entire match in Pakistan. Nonetheless, the BCCI instructed the ICC that it will not ship the Indian group to Pakistan, citing safety issues. On Thursday, the ICC managed to search out an settlement between the BCCI and PCB.
As per the hybrid mannequin, Pakistan will host a lot of the video games, whereas India’s fixtures, together with the one in opposition to the previous, will likely be performed at a impartial venue.
On being requested to share his views on the subject, Pakistan cricketer Ahmed Shehzad took a jibe on the BCCI and the Indian goverment whereas talking on Nadir Ali’s podcast.
Shehzad mentioned that even when a stadium was constructed on the border the place each groups can enter from their respective ends, the Indian authorities may nonetheless have an issue with that.
“Build a stadium on the border. One gate should open in India, the other in Pakistan. Their players can come from there, our players can go from here. But again, I think BCCI or the Indian government will have an issue. They’ll say that when your player comes to the field on our side, we’ll not give him a visa for that,” Shehzad claimed earlier than ICC’s announcement on Thursday.
Shehzad feels that PCB missed a fantastic alternative to host the Indian group in Pakistan.
“Pakistan had a golden chance to host India. All cricket boards had signed the agreement in 2021 that Pakistan will host the Champions Trophy. ICC cannot back off. PCB has missed the chance I think. We should forget that the Indian team will ever come to Pakistan now. Just forget it. The only way you could have brought India here was by an ICC event,” he added.
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