The Asian Cricket Council’s emergency meeting on Saturday in Bahrain called by Pakistan Cricket Board chief Najam Sethi, will decide whether PCB will get to host the 2023 Asia Cup, which the ACC itself had allotted to it.
According to a source to ANI, “PCB’s newly elected chief Najam Sethi wants an urgent meeting with ACC chief and members and he expressed this wish in front of ACC members during ILT 20 opening ceremony in Dubai. Now the meeting will be in Bahrain and the main agenda of the meeting is to decide the fate of the 2023 Asia cup, whether it will be held in Pakistan or not. Most likely it will be held in another country rather than Pakistan.”
ACC president and BCCI secretary Jay Shah had in October unilaterally stated that the 2023 Asia Cup will not be hosted in Pakistan and will be played at a neutral venue.
All eyes will be on tomorrow’s meeting which will clear the air regarding the 2023 Asia Cup host.
The PCB and world cricket’s “Big Daddy” BCCI will face off over their disagreement surrounding the ACC calendar of events announcement made by Shah, which the Pakistan board claims was made “unilaterally” without consulting the Pakistan board.
The calendar was unveiled by Shah on January 5.
“For some time there hasn’t been any ACC Board meeting and there were a lot of decisions being made and one of them we have challenged. Now the good news is that we managed to convince them to have their Board meeting and I will be attending it,” Sethi told ESPNcricinfo.
During the former PCB chairman Ramiz Raja’s term, tensions had been building between the two boards, particularly over the venue of the 2023 Asia Cup, which, as per the original agreement, is slated to take place in Pakistan in September.
