{"id":9086,"date":"2024-11-12T14:05:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T09:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=9086"},"modified":"2024-11-12T14:05:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T09:05:35","slug":"pakistan-may-withdraw-from-champions-trophy-after-india-refuse-to-cross-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/sports\/pakistan-may-withdraw-from-champions-trophy-after-india-refuse-to-cross-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan \u2018may withdraw\u2019 from Champions Trophy after India refuse to cross the border"},"content":{"rendered":"

KARACHI: Pakistan may withdraw from next year\u2019s ICC Champions Trophy in case the tournament\u2019s hosting rights are stripped of the country in the wake of India\u2019s refusal to travel across the border for it, official sources told Dawn<\/em> on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Pakistan Cricket Board\u2019s (PCB) spokesperson\u2019s confirmation on the same day, that the board had \u201creceived an email from the ICC, stating that the BCCI has informed<\/a> them that their team will not travel to Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025\u201d, the matter has been forwarded \u201cto the Government of Pakistan for their advice and guidance\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With PCB chief Mohsin Naqvi having ruled out the possibility of a \u201chybrid model\u201d \u2014 under which India would play their matches at a neutral venue while the remaining tournament is played in Pakistan \u2014 the International Cricket Council (ICC) may propose shifting the tournament entirely to another country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn such a case, one of the options the government is mul\u00adling is that of asking the PCB to ensure Pakistan don\u2019t participate in the Champions Trophy,\u201d a source said, adding that the federal government was looking at the issue \u201cseriously\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While addressing reporters on Friday, Mohsin had said that the PCB should not be expected to \u201ccarry on with their good gestures\u201d, pointing at Pakistan\u2019s flexibility toward the Indian government\u2019s stance of not sending their cricket team to the neighbouring country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to sources, a similar narrative prevails in the offices of the federal government, of which Mohsin is a part of as Pakistan\u2019s interior minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawn<\/em> understands that the government may go on to ask the PCB to refuse playing against India in any of the ICC or Asian Cricket Council tournaments until issues are reso\u00adlved between India and Paki\u00adstan at the government level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid political tensions between the two neighbours, the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) has stood firm by the Indian government\u2019s policy of not engaging with Pakistan in terms of bilateral cricket over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, after having played the last bilateral series against each other in 2012, Pakistan and India have competed in ICC tournaments and the Asia Cup. Pakistan, in fact, visited India to feature in the ICC World Cup last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visit, if anything, heightened expectations of India returning the favour by touring Pakistan for the Cham\u00adpions Trophy, which is set to be held in Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi from Feb 19 to March 9 next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India\u2019s refusal<\/a> to travel to Pakistan for the Asia Cup, which the latter hosted last year, saw the PCB compromise by implementing the \u201chybrid model<\/a>\u201d, which saw Rohit Sharma\u2019s side play its matches in Sri Lanka, with only four matches of the tournament played in Pakistan, excluding the final.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KARACHI: Pakistan may withdraw from next year\u2019s ICC Champions Trophy in case the tournament\u2019s hosting rights are stripped of the country in the wake of India\u2019s refusal to travel across the border for it, official sources told Dawn on Sunday. After the Pakistan Cricket Board\u2019s (PCB) spokesperson\u2019s confirmation on the same day, that the board had \u201creceived […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,84,82,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-india","category-paksitan","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}