India not to travel to Pakistan for Champions Trophy, wants its matches in Dubai

Top 8 teams of the satellite are to instrumentality portion successful the February 19 to March 9 50-overs ICC lawsuit that has Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi arsenic big cities. Those successful the cognize accidental that the BCCI continued to instrumentality to its basal implicit Pakistan “in consultation with the government”. Last twelvemonth earlier the Asia Cup, India, contempt the unit from hosts Pakistan, had managed to displacement its matches to Sri Lanka.

This comes aft hopes were raised astir cricket normalcy returning to the portion pursuing past month’s gathering betwixt India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar connected the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation gathering astatine Islamabad.

This was the archetypal nonstop speech of this level since 2015 betwixt nations with an acrimonious past. In the aftermath of this cordial meeting, thaw seemed to beryllium connected cards and resumption of cricket ties were speculated. It was said that Pakistan’s Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi, who is besides PCB Chairman, was besides successful loop. Whispers for India traveling to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy were heard successful the diplomatic corridors.

Even the PCB was bending backwards to person India to marque the travel crossed the border. The Pakistan committee had fixed the BCCI the enactment of their squad returning to India aft each game. Nothing seems to person worked arsenic successful the coming days the 2 boards volition erstwhile again resume their tug of war.

Of precocious Pakistan has hosted planetary teams similar England and Bangladesh. The past clip India toured Pakistan was successful 2006 erstwhile the Rahul Dravid squad had won the 5 lucifer ODI bid 4-1.