The Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday informed that the Asian Cricket Council is set to convene a meeting on February 4 to discuss matters related to the Asia Cup 2023. After a request from the Asian Cricket Board, the PCB was successful in persuading the ACC to organize an executive board meeting.
PCB chairman Najam Sethi told the media in Lahore on Monday that during his recent visit to Dubai, he was able to convince the ACC members to hold the board meeting. “It is a big deal that the ACC Board will meet in Bahrain on February 4 and issues related to the Asia Cup will be discussed,” he said.
“There will also be an ICC meeting in March and I don’t want to go public about what I discussed with ACC members in Dubai or what I plan to do, debate or discuss in the upcoming meetings,” he said. . But yes definitely India and Pakistan cricket relations are important. The PCB was incensed last year when ACC president Jay Shah said that the Indian team would not go to Pakistan for the Asia Cup and the event would be shifted elsewhere as happened in 2018.
The then Rameez Raja-led PCB retaliated by threatening that if India did not come to Pakistan, it would not even send its team to the ODI World Cup to be held in India later this year. Rameez later also threatened that Pakistan might even consider pulling out of the Asia Cup. Sethi agreed that there was a need for some clarity on matters of cricket between India and Pakistan so that ACC and ICC events are not affected.
“Hosting the Asia Cup this year is very important and India sending its team is a big issue as it will obviously have an impact on the Champions Trophy to be held in Pakistan in 2025. Asia Cup 2023 is going to be held in Pakistan and they recently In 2010, India was in a dispute with the BCCI after the Indian board secretary and ACC president Jay Shah said that India would not travel to Pakistan for the Asia Cup and that the event would be shifted from Pakistan.