‘Participation assurance’ from BCCI for Champions Trophy 2025
Newly appointed PCB president Mohsin Naqvi is awaiting assurances from BCCI secretary Jay Shah on India’s participation in next year’s Champions Trophy in Pakistan at next week’s ICC meeting in Dubai, but it is unlikely that it will come from here.
ICC officials will meet in Dubai next week and Naqvi plans to hold talks with world leaders and India’s chief executive, Shah, on the sidelines, but for the tournament scheduled for February-March 2025, where the body. There is no chance that the Indian board will promise to go to Pakistan immediately for almost a year. Although the Champions Trophy is an ICC tournament and all other cricketing countries are visiting Pakistan, the BCCI will not shut down completely, but the Indian government’s disapproval will come at least a week before the tournament begins.
“The PCB’s biggest concern is whether India will send it to Pakistan and there will not be a repeat of the problem of last year’s Asia Cup,” a PCB source said, citing the “hybrid model” used last year. Last year, the PCB was forced to accept a sharing arrangement in which it hosted four matches of the Asia Cup with others played in Sri Lanka. The BCCI made it clear that it would not send its team to Pakistan for the opposite. authority from his government.
“It was an ICC event that Pakistan traveled to India last year for the World Cup. Naqvi will try to convince the ICC and BCCI that they should agree that India will come to Pakistan as soon as possible because this will help boost CT for them,” the source added.
“Naqvi will try to assure the BCCI representatives that once the elections (in Pakistan) are over and there is a new government, there will be no security or other concerns for them to play in Pakistan.” Last time India visited Pakistan. back in 2008 when they participated in the Asia Cup and since then, Pakistan visited India three times for the test of the ICC World Cup in 2011 (ODI World Cup), 2016 (T20 World Cup) and 2023 (ODI World Cup). It is time to seek permission from the Government of India:
The source said that Naqvi will also explain to the ICC board about the promotion of matches in Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi and the stand of the Pakistani government and India playing in Pakistan.
When asked a BCCI source, he gave a standard answer.
“Playing Pakistan is something that only the Indian government can decide and BCCI will follow the government’s diktat. Also, it is time to seek permission from the government and whether its new president is expecting any kind of assurance that March .2024. for the tournament in February-March 2025, it is incorrect,” said a BCCI source.
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