The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has demanded a written assurance to the ICC from the BCCI that its team would face no problems getting visas to play in the 2021 T20 World Cup and 2023 50 over World Cup in India. PCB has asked ICC to make sure that BCCI should get the assurance in
Describing the same to Cricket Baaz Youtube channel, PCB CEO, Wasim Khan said, “We are also looking at the fact that the ICC World Cups are to be hosted in India in 2021 and 2023 and we have already asked the ICC to give us written assurances from BCCI that we will not face any problems getting visas and clearance to play in India”.
The official also confirmed that the ICC executive board would decide at its next meet whether the next World T20 Cup would be hosted by Australia or India.
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Khan further added, “The big question now is when the World T20 is held in 2021 will it be hosted by Australia or India as India has the hosting rights for the already scheduled World T20 Cup in 2021.”
The PCB CEO said that the ICC members felt the World T20 should be held in the October-November period in 2021 or 2022. He said that Pakistan would go to India for the ICC events after it got complete assurance about the security and safety of its players and officials.
Khan pointed out that in recent times many Pakistan sports squads were not given clearance by the Indian government to play in India. When asked what would be the next steps for the PCB of BCCI chief Sourav Ganguly decided to stand for the post of ICC Chairman when the sitting Chairman Sashank Manohar steps down next month, Khan said so far no candidate including Ganguly or England’s Colin Greaves had made their intentions clear.
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PCB Chairman Ehsan Mani’s name has also been mentioned as a strong candidate to replace Manohar but he recently in a media interaction made it clear that he was committed to Pakistan cricket for the next three years.
