IMAGE: PCB chief Najam Sethi had informed the ACC officers that PCB can be comfortable taking part in most of its remaining matches in Dubai and the event’s majority video games will be held in Dubai, together with the ultimate. {Photograph}: PCB
In a determined bid to host some matches of the Asia Cup in Pakistan, the PCB is now attempting to persuade the Asian Cricket Council to allocate simply 4 first spherical video games in Pakistan or else they might don’t have any choice however to pull-out of continental physique.
PCB chairman Najam Sethi’s ‘Hybrid Mannequin’ of Pakistan taking part in their residence video games aside from India’s matches, in their very own nation, has been rejected by different member nations.
PCB, in flip, has rejected the concept of internet hosting Asia Cup video games in Sri Lanka.
“Sure, Najam Sethi as a part of the plan B of the hybrid mannequin proposed by us for the Asia Cup has knowledgeable the ACC this week in Dubai that PCB can be happy internet hosting 4 video games at residence,” a dependable supply near the cricket board mentioned.
He mentioned, Sethi had additionally conveyed to the ACC in Dubai that if even this plan B of the PCB was rejected by ACC members then Pakistan wouldn’t play within the Asia Cup and in addition withdraw from the Asian Cricket Council.
Sethi, based on the supply, has proposed a Pakistan versus Nepal match and Afghanistan versus Bangladesh, Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka v Bangladesh matches in Pakistan.
The supply additionally added that Sethi had informed the ACC officers that PCB can be comfortable taking part in most of its remaining matches in Dubai and the event’s majority video games will be held in Dubai, together with the ultimate.
“The one problem now going through the ACC and us as hosts is that Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India are insisting the occasion should not be held in UAE in September because the climate could be very scorching,” the supply mentioned.
“Within the current previous, BCCI has organised all the (half) of IPL in UAE between September and November (in 2021) whereas the final two Asia Cups have additionally been held in UAE throughout the identical interval,” the PCB supply reminded.
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