Champions Trophy | ‘Fully support the PCB’s stance against the hybrid model’: Shahid Afridi slams BCCI for ‘intertwining politics with sports’

At a virtual gathering called for by the International Cricket Council to beryllium held connected Friday, The Indian Express reported that a hybrid exemplary is apt to beryllium projected to the PCB for the Champions Trophy which volition spot India’s 3 matches, a semifinal and the last to beryllium played successful a neutral country.

By intertwining authorities with sports, the BCCI has placed planetary cricket successful a precarious position. Fully enactment the PCB's stance against the hybrid exemplary – particularly since Pakistan (despite information concerns) has toured India 5 times, including a bilateral white-ball… pic.twitter.com/Xl4YBhCWuB

— Shahid Afridi (@SAfridiOfficial) November 28, 2024

India person intimated to the ICC their refusal to question to Pakistan for the tournament. PCB wants the full Champions Trophy to beryllium played astatine Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi. However, caller tensions rising successful Pakistan, which led to Sri Lanka’s cricket committee canceling it’s A squad tour, is improbable to assistance PCB’s stance during the meeting.

On Wednesday night, PCB president Mohsin Naqvi had questioned India’s continued refusal to sojourn the state to play cricket, arsenic the impasse continued implicit the aforementioned Champions Trophy 2025.

“It is conscionable not imaginable that portion Pakistan keeps connected going and playing successful India each events the Indian authorities are not consenting to nonstop their squad to play successful Pakistan. We can’t person specified an unequal situation,” Naqvi told reporters astatine the Gaddafi stadium, reported PTI.