ISLAMABAD – Pakistan formally responds over BCCI decision of not sendingIndian cricket team to Pakistan for Asia Cup 2020.
Following BCCI’s decision of not sending Indian Cricket Team to Pakistanfor Asia Cup 2020, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ehsan Mani onSaturday said that it entirely depends on Asian Cricket Council to decidethe tournament’s venue.
According to Sportstar, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)has decided not to travel to Pakistan for the upcoming Asia Cup citingsecurity reasons. They have appealed to shift it to a neutral venue – theUnited Arab Emirates (UAE) – same as India did last time in 2018.
Ehsan Mani has made it clear that the Board will wait for the Asian CricketCouncil meeting — scheduled to be held later this month or in early March —to get a clearer picture on the issue. “We will discuss the matter jointly,same as we decided last time (in 2018), when India had to host the Asia Cupin the UAE as they could not guarantee visas for Pakistan players,” Manisaid.
Mani, who has previously headed the International Cricket Council, wasconfident that all the boards will take a collective decision “in the bestinterest of Asian cricket.”
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“We are the host this time as per the Asian Cricket Council policies. Thisis an Asian Cricket Council event, and when we have the next meeting, wewill collectively decide about it. It’s not about India or Pakistan, it’sthe Asian countries as a whole, who will decide where the tournament willbe hosted.
“We don’t have any issues with it. Had it been an India-Pakistan series,[it would have been a different matter]. It’s not that case. Here we willtake a collective decision as responsible people, looking after Asiancricket,” said Mani.
