NEW DELHI: The continuing stress over the Champions Trophy stays one of many long-standing complexities in India-Pakistan cricket relations.
Lately, Pakistan cricketer Ahmad Shahzad brazenly criticized India’s stance on the upcoming match, voicing frustration over what he sees as India’s ‘false guarantees.’
He identified that whereas Pakistan offers credit score to India once they carry out effectively on the sector, their hesitance to play in Pakistan seems to be pushed by extra than simply cricket issues.
“Pakistan now must step ahead and make clear its stance. We have identified for a very long time that India are making false guarantees. At any time when they play effectively, we reward them as a result of they deserve it. However relating to this subject (coming to Pakistan), India have been mendacity for a very long time. Even earlier than, each time Pakistan would attempt to do one thing like this (internet hosting a mega occasion), India would attempt to financially injury it,” stated Ahmad Shahzad on the Pakistani channel Geo Information.
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“And this time, they’ve crossed the road. Pakistan must take a robust stance. If India do not need to come, allow them to keep away—sufficient is sufficient!” added a pissed off Shahzad.
In response to India’s refusal to play in Pakistan for the 2025 Champions Trophy, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is reportedly making ready to problem this determination by the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI).
In keeping with the Daybreak newspaper, the PCB plans to query the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) to grasp the rationale behind BCCI’s stance.
Whereas a hybrid mannequin, permitting India to play in a impartial venue, was proposed, PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi has reportedly opposed this association.
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The ICC now faces the troublesome activity of discovering an answer, with choices together with transferring the match out of Pakistan solely, doubtlessly to South Africa or the UAE.
Some stories, nonetheless, have additionally advised that Pakistan may take into account withdrawing from the Champions Trophy if internet hosting rights are eliminated—a choice that might mark a major escalation within the dispute.
