Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) was on Tuesday caught in a impasse with the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) for demanding extra compensation on organising chartered flights between Pakistan and Sri Lanka through the Asia Cup, which it co-hosted in August-September. The Asia Cup 2023 was organised in a hybrid mannequin in Pakistan and Sri Lanka after the ACC accepted PCB’s hybrid mannequin, with majority of the matches organised within the island nation.
A dependable supply within the PCB knowledgeable PTI that aside from searching for the match internet hosting charges — round $250,000 — in addition to shares from ticketing and sponsorship charges, they’ve additionally demanded extra compensation.
The supply stated, “The extra cash is for bills incurred on renting chartered flights for groups between Pakistan and Sri Lanka and different additional bills like extra lodge and transport charges, which weren’t included within the preliminary price range for the Asia Cup.”
The supply, nonetheless, knowledgeable that the ACC will not be keen to pay extra bills to the PCB because it believes that Pakistan had agreed for matches to be held in Sri Lanka underneath its hybrid mannequin, in return for internet hosting 4 video games of the Asia Cup at house.
A Sri Lanka-based firm named Traditional Journey was paid $281,000 for arranging 4 chartered flights backward and forward between Pakistan and the island nation — one thing that PCB’s Cricket Administration Committee (CMC) was not snug paying upfront as advance.
The match was moved to a hybrid mannequin after India refused to play in Pakistan citing safety causes.
Whereas Pakistan hosted solely 4 matches initially, the bills ballooned apparently as a result of the CMC head Zaka Ashraf moved considered one of these video games from Lahore to Multan, close to his hometown.
The supply stated because the ACC determined to carry matches in Sri Lanka, it was their duty to pay for the chartered flights and different extra bills incurred by the PCB, which, in its assembly, had authorized the bills.
The supply added that Pakistan, who performed in opposition to Afghanistan in Sri Lanka simply earlier than the Asia Cup, had been slated to return house for the Asia Cup. However because the occasion was held principally in Sri Lanka, PCB needed to organize chartered flights between Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
The corporate arranging the flights had quoted a price of $281,700 for 4 chartered flights and all cash was demanded prematurely.
The PCB additionally thought-about promoting vacant seats on the chartered aircrafts to followers, however the concept was trashed owing to safety causes.
In the meantime, claims have additionally emerged {that a} prime PCB official used one of many chartered flights to take his household to Colombo.
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