LAHORE: An important meeting of the Asian Council of Cricket (ACC) is held on Thursday in Dhaka, where Pakistan’s participation in this year’s Asia Cup in India is discussed.
The president of the Cricket Board of Pakistan (PCB), Mohsin Naqvi, as expected that the chief of the ACC would go to Dhaka on Tuesday night to direct this meeting.
The ACC meeting is considered important, particularly in the context of the Asia Cup, scheduled for India in September.
According to the reports, no BCCI official will visit Bangladesh to attend the ACC meeting. There are also reports from the media that Sri Lanka, Oman and Afghanistan cannot attend.
Although the Asia Cup is an important continental event, due to the tense political relations between India and Pakistan, particularly after the military meeting between the neighbors with nuclear weapons in May of this year, the fate of said competition is in balance.
For its part, the BCCI has said that political relations between India and Bangladesh are not normal. Therefore, the ACC meeting must move from there to any other place. But the ACC didn’t change the place.
It has not yet been decided if Pakistan Visit India for the Asia Cup or a hybrid model, which will be adopted for the CPI events, has not yet been decided.
Under the hybrid model, both India and Pakistan agreed to play their respective EVI events matches, such as world drinks and the Champions Trophy, in neutral places.
Posted in Dawn, July 23, 2025
