The PCB offered its “hybrid” resolution for internet hosting the 2023 Asia Cup once more to the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), believing that this time it had resolved logistical and technical considerations the ACC had raised. Officers from either side met in Dubai on Tuesday, however it emerged that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) have each objected to holding part of the match within the UAE.

The hybrid mannequin was the answer the PCB had proposed to account for the truth that India wouldn’t journey to Pakistan for the match due to ongoing political tensions between the governments of the 2 international locations. The proposed resolution may have India enjoying all their video games within the UAE, with the remainder of the match performed out in Pakistan.

However ESPNcricinfo understands that the BCB and SLC cited logistical challenges concerned in travelling between Pakistan and a second nation through the Asia Cup, which is scheduled to be performed in September, a month earlier than the ODI World Cup is held throughout India. Each boards additionally identified that the intense warmth within the UAE within the first half of September was a deterrent, too.

“We have now written to the ACC to say that we’re towards the hybrid mannequin,” Mohan de Silva, the SLC secretary, advised ESPNcricinfo. “However past that, no closing determination has been reached. It is extremely popular within the UAE at the moment of yr.”

In what’s turning into an more and more vexed problem, a PCB official countered by claiming that the board has emails from each BCB and SLC confirming they haven’t any points enjoying in Pakistan. The official additionally identified that final yr’s Asia Cup was performed from August 27 to September 11 within the UAE – the identical window the boards are objecting to this time. In 2018, a 50-over model of the Asia Cup was additionally performed within the UAE, from September 15-28. Each these occasions moved to the UAE as a substitute; within the first occasion the match was presupposed to be performed in India however was moved due to India-Pakistan political tensions; final yr it was shifted from Sri Lanka due to the political and financial turmoil the nation was going by means of on the time.

One suggestion is for the PCB to observe the instance of SLC, which retained…

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