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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Najam Sethi’s comments on Friday cast fresh doubts over Pakistan’s participation in the upcoming ICC World Cup that will be hosted by India.
The arch-rivals are reportedly set for a showdown at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium 10 days after the opening clash on 5 October, with over a lakh spectators expected to attend the blockbuster clash. However, PCB chief Sethi cautioned that for the dream fixture to go ahead, the board must first receive permission from the Shehbaz Sharif-led Pakistan government.
“As far as India and Pakistan go, neither the PCB or the BCCI can take decisions. The respective governments only can take decisions,” Sethi said during a press conference.
“It’s our government who has to decide, just like when it comes to India, it’s their government that decides when they go to play. There is no point asking us if we will play in Ahmedabad.
“When the time comes, first it will be decided whether we are going or not, then the government decides where we will go. Our decision will rest on these two important conditions,” he added.
Tensions have resurfaced between PCB and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in recent months following India’s refusal to travel to Pakistan for the Asia Cup due to security concerns and political tensions. Pakistan retaliated by threatening to boycott the ODI World Cup.
The Asia Cup has since been tweaked to a “Hybrid Model” — a solution offered by the Sethi-led PCB — with an initial round of matches taking place in Pakistan and the rest, including those involving India, in Sri Lanka. The hybrid solution had been formally accepted on Thursday by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), the body that organises the continental tournament and is led by BCCI secretary Jay Shah.
It is understood that once ICC CEO Geoff Allardice and chairman Greg Barclay visited Karachi to meet Sethi last month, it was decided that Pakistan won’t set any conditions for competing in the World Cup, provided four Asia Cup games are held in the country as they have the hosting rights.
Sethi further said, “We have told the ICC also that if our government looks into the security considerations and gives us permission, we will come to play in India. If they don’t give, how can we come and play in India?
“Even if the government gives us permission, we have to look at the venues and decide where to play. That comes later. Firstly, the government has to give us the nod. It has to tell us whether we can go or not.”
With inputs from PTI
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Joe Root ended his Ashes century-drought as England made 393-8 before skipper Ben Stokes's bold declaration on the opening day of the first Test against Australia at Edgbaston on Friday.
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Ashes preview: English cricket’s “Bazball” revolution is about to get its ultimate test.
The Ashes — the most famous Test cricket series of them all — is here once again and the five matches between England and Australia could be among the wildest since the first one was played in 1882.
Under captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum, whose nickname is “Baz,” England has gone all-out attack and won 12 of its last 17 tests. Always chasing a win — even at the risk of losing — England have not been defeated in a series over the past year. It’s a remarkable turnaround in form for a national team which had won just one of its previous 17 Tests before the Stokes-McCullum partnership was formed.
It has reached the stage where England’s players will chase quick runs and fast wickets or adopt aggressive field placings whether they’re playing a cricket minnow or the world champion.
In Australia, they are taking on just that: The newly crowned world Test champion.
And the message from the Australians, who beat India in the World Test Championship final at Lord’s on Sunday? Bring it on.
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Ravichandran Ashwin wasn't picked in the Indian team's playing XI for the World Test Championship final against Australia. He has now broken silence on the snub.
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R Ashwin was left out of India’s playing XI for the World Test Championship (WTC) final despite being the top-ranked bowler. Instead, India went in with four seamers and Ravindra Jadeja as the solitary spinner. The decision came back to hurt the team as Australia won by 209 runs with the Aussie off-spinner Nathan Lyon playing a crucial role on Day 5.
The team selection created quite a stir with Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar voicing their disappointment.
Speaking for the first time since the WTC final, Ashwin said the omission was a “stumbling block” and not a “setback” in his career.
“For me, it’s not a setback,” Ashwin told the Indian Express and Hindu. “It’s just a stumbling block, I’ll move on because I have gone through that. When somebody knocks you down for the first time, you have a knee-jerk reaction. I think you should be knocked down once in a while along your life so that you are used to it and will know how to bounce back. That’s what life is. Whether you are at your peak or not, it is still a setback. The fact that you need to learn how to deal with it is very important.
“I would have loved to play because I have played a part in us getting there. Even in the last final I got four wickets and bowled really well. Ever since 2018-19, my bowling overseas has been fantastic and I have managed to win games for the team. I am looking at it as a captain or coach and I’m just talking in hindsight, in their defence. So the last time when we were in England, it was 2-2 with a drawn Test and they would have felt four pacers and one spinner is the combination in England. That is what they might have thought going into the final. The problem is for a spinner to come into play, it must be the fourth innings. The fourth innings is a very crucial facet and for us to be able to put that amount of runs so the spinner can come into play, it’s completely a mindset thing.
“To look inwards and say ‘okay, somebody is judging me’ is foolishness. I think I’m not at the stage of my career to think what others are thinking of me. I know what I am capable of. If I’m not good at something, I’ll be my first best critic. And I will work on it and I’m not someone who will sit on my laurels. I’ve never been made that way. So to think of who’s judging me is immaterial.”
Ashwin last played a Test in England in 2021, the first WTC final against New Zealand, and took two wickets in each innings to finish with 4/45. Overall, he has featured in seven Tests in England taking 18 wickets in 11 innings. However, when India last played a Test series in England, he was benched for all five matches. During that series, too, India went with four seamers and a spinner approach.
For the WTC final this time, Ashwin said he was aware of being axed 48 hours before the game started. However, the 36-year-old said he is “chilled” and “relaxed” at this stage of his career.
“I’m a lot more chilled than I used to be,” he said. “A lot more relaxed in my life than I ever have been. Sitting here today, I realise how much of a toll it had taken on me mentally to the point where I was traumatised. But I am very glad to have come through that and discovered a new me.
“A lot of people marketed me and positioned me that I am an overthinker. A person who will get 15-20 matches on the go doesn’t have to be mentally overthinking. A person who knows that they will get only two games will be traumatised and will be overthinking because it’s my job. It’s my journey. So this is what suits me.”
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Four months since stepping down from his role at the BCCI following a sting operation, former India cricketer Chetan Sharma was wearing the selector’s hat once again, this time for North Zone for the upcoming Duleep Trophy.
According to an exclusive report on News18 Cricketnext, the meeting was convened by veteran cricket administrator Anirudh Chaudhary and was attended by the representatives of the member associations comprising North Zone.
Sharma attended the meeting as a representative of the Haryana Cricket Association (HCA), and was asked to chair the meeting on the basis of his seniority.
“According to the BCCI constitution, every state association can nominate its representative for the zonal selection meeting. Haryana chose to nominate Chetan Sharma and he chaired the meeting since he was the senior most of the lot,” Chaudhary, a former treasurer with the BCCI, said.
Chaudhary added that Sharma’s presence in the meeting added “weight and perspective” to the discussion.
“His presence today was invaluable. Him being a former national chairman of selector added so much weight and perspective to the discussion. He has already seen these players from close quarters and added so many good inputs. He had attended the meeting last year too but that was in the capacity of BCCI selector.
“I can add that it was probably one of the most fruitful meetings I have been part of and everything was done so professionally and amicably. The team which you see, which I can well say looks very strong, has been picked on merit and all selectors were on the same page. The intention was to assemble a squad which goes on to win the title and I hope we do that,” Chaudhary added.
Sharma had been retained as chief selector in January earlier this year but was forced to step down a month later following his ‘loose talk’ in the sting operation, in which he made a series of startling revelations on many topics including the breakdown in relations between Sourav Ganguly and Virat Kohli and how players take injections to pass fitness tests.
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