{"id":43643,"date":"2024-08-02T16:17:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T11:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=43643"},"modified":"2024-08-02T16:17:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T11:17:27","slug":"pcb-chairman-directs-officials-to-avoid-commenting-on-indias-participation-in-ct-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pcb-chairman-directs-officials-to-avoid-commenting-on-indias-participation-in-ct-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB chairman directs officials to avoid commenting on India&#8217;s participation in CT 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pcb-forms-special-committee-to-review-player-conduct-reports\/\">Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)<\/a> Chairman Mohsin Naqvi has directed all PCB officials to refrain from commenting on India&#8217;s participation in the Champions Trophy 2025, marking a departure from the board&#8217;s prior practice of openly criticizing India.<\/p>\n<p>This directive aims to maintain diplomatic silence and enable the<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/bcci-official-predicts-pcb-retaliation-if-india-boycotts-champions-trophy-2025\/\"> International Cricket Council (ICC) t<\/a>o handle the matter.<\/p>\n<p>In a shift from previous practices where PCB officials frequently made accusatory remarks about India, Naqvi&#8217;s directive now emphasizes a more diplomatic approach. This change follows India&#8217;s refusal to tour Pakistan for the Asia Cup 2023, leading to a hybrid model with Sri Lanka as co-host.<\/p>\n<p>Sources indicate that Naqvi&#8217;s directive was influenced by a statement from BCCI Vice-President Rajeev Shukla, who suggested that India might retaliate by not participating in the Champions Trophy 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the PCB is focusing on collaborating with the ICC, which has received the draft schedule and security plans for the tournament from Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, there have been no recent comments from Naqvi or other board officials regarding the potential consequences if India does not send its team to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The PCB has submitted the draft schedule and security plans to the ICC, and it is now up to the ICC to persuade India to participate, according to BCCUPCB source.<\/p>\n<p>While the PCB remains discreet about its potential responses to India&#8217;s decision, it has reportedly developed a strategy with government officials in private.<\/p>\n<p>The board is committed to successfully hosting the Champions Trophy, which will be Pakistan&#8217;s first major tournament since the 2008 Asia Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi has directed all PCB officials to refrain from commenting on India&#8217;s participation in the Champions Trophy 2025, marking a departure from the board&#8217;s prior practice of openly criticizing India. This directive aims to maintain diplomatic silence and enable the International Cricket Council (ICC) to handle the matter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":34181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[2449,15707,301,364],"class_list":["post-43643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-sports","tag-bcci","tag-champions-trophy-2025","tag-icc","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43644,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643\/revisions\/43644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}