The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC).
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Cities in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) discovered no point out within the Champions Trophy tour unveiled by the ICC on Saturday (November 16, 2024) because the world physique moved in swiftly to have them dropped from the host nation’s itinerary following India’s sturdy objection.
The Trophy Tour will now comprise Karachi, Rawalpindi and Islamabad, aside from Abbottabad within the Khyber Pakhtunwala Area.
The Trophy Tour begins in Islamabad, the capital metropolis of Pakistan, and can journey to different cities of the nation — Taxila and Khanpur (November 17), Abbottabad (November 18), Murree (November 19) and Nathia Gali (November 20) earlier than concluding in Karachi (November 22-25). Most of those cities are vacationer points of interest, Earlier, on November 14, the PCB had introduced the Trophy Tour, which included cities like Skardu, Hunza and Muzaffarabad, which fall within the PoK area, a disputed territory between India and Pakistan.
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The PTI reported on Friday that the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah had raised sturdy objections with the ICC to PCB’s Trophy Tour plans within the PoK area.
Nonetheless, the worldwide physique took swift motion to eradicate these cities from the tour as revealed on Saturday.
Following the Trophy Tour in Pakistan, it would tour Afghanistan (November 26-28), adopted by Bangladesh (December 10-13), South Africa (December 15-22), Australia (December 25-January 5), New Zealand (January 6-11), England (January 12-14) and India (January 15-26).
The cities for the Trophy Tour outdoors Pakistan might be introduced in the end.
“A sequence of bodily and digital engagements traversing iconic locations, sporting occasions and key battles within the worldwide cricket calendar type the Trophy Tour schedule, throughout which followers will even be handled to a content material sequence titled ‘Champion on Tour’ that may doc the Trophy Tour’s journey around the globe by way of the lens of meals, music and cricket,” ICC stated in a launch.
Pakistan is the defending champion of the occasion, having received the title at The Oval in London in 2017, defeating India within the closing.
As for this version, India has reportedly denied travelling to Pakistan for the match, and the ICC is working with PCB to discover a attainable resolution to it, together with internet hosting it in a hybrid mannequin or shifting the competitors out of Pakistan, presumably the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or South Africa.
ICC places Champions Trophy tour on maintain after BCCI’s sturdy objection
The ICC on Friday (November 15, 2024) placed on maintain Champions Trophy tour of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) following BCCI’s sturdy objection to the PCB’s transfer.
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The Hindu
Sources within the PCB yesterday stated the trophy tour was deliberate in session and with the approval of the ICC and it was not a unilateral choice of the PCB.
“If they’d points they need to have notified the PCB instantly earlier than asserting the trophy tour. Anyhow the PCB as hosts and industrial companions of the ICC is cooperating as all the time with them,” one other supply stated.
The trophy would now be taken to Islamabad, Taxila, Abbottabad, Murree, Nathiagali and Karachi with the trophy tour ending on November 22.
Revealed – November 16, 2024 04:58 pm IST
