‘ICC will all the time aspect with India’: Former PCB chief on Champions Trophy stand-off | Cricket Information

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India’s refusal to play the subsequent 12 months’s Champions Trophy in Pakistan has led to a stand-off between the 2 estranged neighbours, leaving the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) in a soup over the return of one in all its premier occasions after a niche of seven years.
The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) have knowledgeable the ICC that it will not journey to Pakistan to play the Champions Trophy, after which the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reportedly written to the game’s apex physique to clarify the explanations behind India’s refusal.
Reviews additionally counsel that the PCB has rejected the choice of a hybrid mannequin, which is able to permit India to play all their matches at a impartial venue.

Sharing his two cents on the difficulty, former PCB chairman Najam Sethi has suggested the Pakistan board to assume properly and never take any selections based mostly on the nation’s feelings.
“I’ll let you know one factor. ICC will all the time aspect with India. Bear in mind this,” mentioned Sethi speaking to ‘Samaa TV’. “Now, in the event that they transfer the match to Sri Lanka or Dubai, and Pakistan would not take part, then it should value the ICC and likewise India & Pakistan as a result of the ICC revenues are distributed in a portion. Main portion goes to India and the fourth portion goes to Pakistan.
“It would not trouble India a lot. They (BCCI) are very wealthy. Nevertheless it issues loads for Pakistan if their revenues drop. That might be one other problem for Pakistan.”
Sethi was the PCB chairman when the final 12 months’s Asia Cup, with Pakistan because the designated hosts, was became a hybrid mannequin after India’s refusal to go to. India performed all their matches in Sri Lanka, whereas the remainder of the match was hosted in Pakistan.

“Will they (PCB) take this problem to a logical finish? And what’s a logical finish to this?” Sehti continued.
“It means when you have rejected a hybrid mannequin after India refused to return and likewise rejected taking part in in a foreign country, then you definitely will not play sooner or later ICC occasions additionally. So you might be mainly going to push your self out of the ICC. And in the event you try this, then what’s going to stay in addition to bilateral cricket? You do not make a lot cash in bilateral cricket as a result of it’s reciprocal,” he added.
“So the factor is that then Pakistan will discover it tough. Whoever is making these selections, they need to assume what’s its logic? India is aware of its logic behind the boycott, they’ll maintain it. They’ve finished it earlier than…ICC will then be compelled. However what’s going to Pakistan do?…So my recommendation is that whoever is making the choices ought to assume properly and never emotionally.”

Sethi additionally hinted that the stand-off may very well be a diplomatic tactic.
“In the event that they (PCB) perceive that it is a diplomatic negotiation tactic, that they will not play if the match is taken some other place and then you definitely make a u-turn and comply with play based mostly on situations that you simply get to host, say, 8-10 matches as an alternative of 4-6. Is it (such) a tactic? I do not know.”
The match is scheduled to be performed from February 19 to March 9, 2025; and the PCB has supplied to host all India’s matches in Lahore in order that they’ll come, play and return house the identical day through the closest border, Attari, separating the 2 international locations, close to Amritsar.