The standoff associated to the Champions Trophy internet hosting is near decision, and former Pakistan batter Basit Ali has stated that “a deal has been struck between the ICC, BCCI and the broadcaster” within the newest video on his YouTube channel.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reportedly given a conditional settlement to a hybrid mannequin for the Champions Trophy, scheduled to be hosted by Pakistan from February 19 to March 9.
“Everyone acquired to know that it’ll be a hybrid mannequin, which was additionally agreed upon by PCB chairman, Mohsin Naqvi, however with the situation that the identical mannequin can be in pressure for the 2026 ICC occasion (T20 World Cup) in India,” Basit stated in his video.
He additionally claimed that the ICC is making an attempt to lure Pakistan with a suggestion to host a ladies’s World Cup someday in 2027-28 in order that they ship their group to India for the 2026 males’s T20 World Cup.
“Now it’s being stated that in 2027 or 2028 a ladies’s World Cup internet hosting rights can be given to Pakistan…Everyone will really feel ‘wow! Not one however two ICC occasions in Pakistan!’ But it surely’s being completed in order that in 2026 Pakistan group goes to India, and the Indian ladies’s group will then come to Pakistan. The broadcaster will not undergo any losses,” stated Basit.
“This can be a lollipop ICC is giving to PCB — that you simply conform to this, do not ask for something in writing, and we offers you one other ICC occasion. This may not be of any profit,” he added.
The 53-year-old former batter stated that PCB ought to ask for the Asia Cup rights, despite the fact that it is a determination that comes beneath the ambit of the Asian Cricket Council, and never the ICC.
“PCB ought to have requested for the Asia Cup, which has 2-Three India-Pakistan matches, even when in hybrid mode. I do know they’ll say it’s the Asian Cricket Council’s property, however the huge boss is ICC,” Basit stated.
