ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ramiz Raja has said Pakistan needed to create a “cricketing bond” with India, adding that he had always believed that politics should remain separate from sports, the PCB website said.
Raja was speaking to PCB Digital following his return from Dubai, where he met officials from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), as well as held meetings on the Asian Cricket Council Asia Cup, a men’s One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket tournament whose next season will be held in Pakistan in 2023.
“I met with BCCI President Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah on the sidelines of the ACC meetings,” Raja said on Monday. “We need to create a cricketing bond, while I have also believed that politics should stay away from sport as much as possible and this has always been our stance.
“A lot of work needs to be done to revitalize Pakistan-India cricket but there needs to be some comfortable level between the two boards and then we can see how far we can go. So overall, we had a good discussion.”
The PCB chairman said the 2023 ACC Cup in Pakistan would be a 50-over competition: ““The ACC has agreed and approved that the 2023 event in Pakistan will be a 50-over competition and will be held in September. This aligns very nicely with the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023, which will be held in October and November.
“We are looking forward to hosting this tournament in Pakistan and I am confident it will be a well-organized event because this is what the fans want.”
We need to create ‘cricketing bond’ with India, keep politics separate — PCB chairman
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We need to create ‘cricketing bond’ with India, keep politics separate — PCB chairman
- Ramiz Raja was talking to PCB Digital following his return from Dubai where he met officials from Board of Control for Cricket in India
- Says next Asian Cricket Council Asia Cup would be a 50-over competition held in Pakistan in September 2023
