Accoridng to the latest reports of Island Cricket, Sri Lanka has received the hosting rights of the 15th edition of the Asia Cup in September next year by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) on Saturday. The tournament, which is usually a 50-over affair, will be played as a T20 contest as in 2016 when Bangladesh hosted it citing the T20 World Cup 2022 which will be taking place in Australia.
The tournament was scheduled to be taking place in September 2020 but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been postponed on several occasions due to travel restrictions, country-specific quarantine requirements, fundamental health risks, social distancing mandates, and above all the risks related to health and safety of participating players, support staff, commercial partners, fans and the cricketing community.
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The tournament was expected to be hosted in 2020 by Pakistan who exchanged hosting rights with Sri Lanka with Pakistan due to host the Asia Cup in 2023.
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Meanwhile, as per a report in Cricbuzz, the PCB Chairman Ramiz Raja had earlier confirmed that the 2023 edition of the Asia Cup will be played in Pakistan and they will not host the tournament at any other venue.
The ACC meeting, chaired by Jay Shah, the secretary of BCCI, has recognized that it is the turn of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to host the event, and the PCB, as it has been maintaining in recent times, has declared that they will not host the event at a neutral venue, but in Pakistan only.
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India and Pakistan have not engaged in any bilateral series since 2012 due to the ongoing political tensions between the two countries.
