Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan has denied to follow in the footsteps of Pakistan Hockey Federation which declared that it would boycott future foreign events in India.
PHF secretary Shahbaz Ahmad has stated that so as to register its protest with the worldwide Hockey Federation (FIH) to dropping Pakistan from the Junior World Cup in India this month, it wouldn’t participate in any competition in India. ().
“Look, we won’t take such a choice because it’s going to be unfair to countless individuals who want to observe Indo-Pak matches. Second, whenever we perform against each other it implies enormous financial benefits for the boards and players and any boycott will only hurt us financially,” said Khan, who’d previously appointed threats of boycotting India in ICC events.
Khan said Pakistan was looking forward to having constructive talks with all the BCCI officials later this month throughout the Asian Cricket Council meeting in Colombo.
Khan explained the next meeting of the ICC had already been moved to Dubai from Mumbai as a result of connections between Pakistan and India.
“In future we won’t send our teams into India for almost any competition. The way we had been dumped from the Junior World Cup gets damaged our hockey since the tournament was important for all of us to prepare fresh players to our senior staff,” Ahmad said.
“It had been the obligation of the FIH to make sure we got visas. We are boycotting all events in India. They say we did not confirm our participation in time and made hotel bookings.
The fact is we had been awaiting the visas and second that the hotel asked us for a non refundable deposit of four thousand Indian rupees that we could not afford given our financial standing. We were not in a place to deposit such a large amount without being sure when we will find the visas,” Ahmad said.
India is due to host the hockey Asia Cup along with FIH World Cup at 2017 and 2018.
source http://www.southwalescricket.co.uk/pakistan-cricket-board-against-boycotting-cricket-ties-with-india-cricket-news/
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