KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ehsan Mani mentioned they may push for the upcoming T20 World Cup‘s “relocation” to the UAE if India does not present a written assurance that its group, followers and scribes can be granted visas for the occasion.
Throughout an interplay with reporters on the PCB headquarters in Lahore, Mani mentioned his board had expressed their views to the ICC.
“There’s a want to alter the ‘Large Three’ mindset,” Mani mentioned.
“We’re not in search of written assurance for the visas of the nationwide group solely, however for the followers, officers and journalists as effectively.”
The veteran cricket administrator added, “We now have advised the ICC that India ought to give written assurances by the top of March in order that we all know the place we stand or we’ll push for the relocation of the World Cup from India to UAE,” he mentioned.
India is scheduled to host the T20 showpiece in October-November.
Mani additionally mentioned that they needed written assurances from the BCCI concerning the safety preparations for the Pakistan total contingent.
He mentioned on Friday the assurances have been vital given the “current relationship” between the 2 nations.
Within the absence of bilateral cricket between the 2 nations, Mani mentioned his board had made its intentions clear to the sport’s stakeholders — inside and out of doors the nation — that “PCB plans to run our cricket with out India.”
The PCB chairman additionally mentioned the board was hopeful that each one its cricketers would get vaccinated by the month of March and revealed that the higher brass was in touch with the Nationwide Command Operation Centre, which is coordinating Pakistan’s coronavirus response.
Mani mentioned that the PCB had labored lots in getting groups to renew touring Pakistan for Take a look at and white ball cricket.
He highlighted the board’s efforts in internet hosting worldwide cricket — which noticed excursions from Zimbabwe for 3 ODIs and as many T20Is and South Africa for 2 Assessments and three T20Is — and a whole home season regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mani mentioned that the PCB had not consulted the ICC earlier than taking a choice to have full-fledged home and worldwide cricket actions within the nation for the present season.
He additionally expressed disappointment over Cricket Australia‘s choice to not ship its males’s group to South Africa and mentioned, “On the peak of the virus in England in the summertime of 2020, the Pakistan males’s group toured England.”
Talking about this 12 months’s Asia Cup, he mentioned Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) had created a window for the occasion, which can be held within the T20 format.
Throughout an interplay with reporters on the PCB headquarters in Lahore, Mani mentioned his board had expressed their views to the ICC.
“There’s a want to alter the ‘Large Three’ mindset,” Mani mentioned.
“We’re not in search of written assurance for the visas of the nationwide group solely, however for the followers, officers and journalists as effectively.”
The veteran cricket administrator added, “We now have advised the ICC that India ought to give written assurances by the top of March in order that we all know the place we stand or we’ll push for the relocation of the World Cup from India to UAE,” he mentioned.
India is scheduled to host the T20 showpiece in October-November.
Mani additionally mentioned that they needed written assurances from the BCCI concerning the safety preparations for the Pakistan total contingent.
He mentioned on Friday the assurances have been vital given the “current relationship” between the 2 nations.
Within the absence of bilateral cricket between the 2 nations, Mani mentioned his board had made its intentions clear to the sport’s stakeholders — inside and out of doors the nation — that “PCB plans to run our cricket with out India.”
The PCB chairman additionally mentioned the board was hopeful that each one its cricketers would get vaccinated by the month of March and revealed that the higher brass was in touch with the Nationwide Command Operation Centre, which is coordinating Pakistan’s coronavirus response.
Mani mentioned that the PCB had labored lots in getting groups to renew touring Pakistan for Take a look at and white ball cricket.
He highlighted the board’s efforts in internet hosting worldwide cricket — which noticed excursions from Zimbabwe for 3 ODIs and as many T20Is and South Africa for 2 Assessments and three T20Is — and a whole home season regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mani mentioned that the PCB had not consulted the ICC earlier than taking a choice to have full-fledged home and worldwide cricket actions within the nation for the present season.
He additionally expressed disappointment over Cricket Australia‘s choice to not ship its males’s group to South Africa and mentioned, “On the peak of the virus in England in the summertime of 2020, the Pakistan males’s group toured England.”
Talking about this 12 months’s Asia Cup, he mentioned Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) had created a window for the occasion, which can be held within the T20 format.