PTI, Mar 31, 2023, 3:45 PM IST

The Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday clarified that its chairman Najam Sethi by no means floated the concept on the ICC Board assembly concerning the nationwide males’s staff meaning to play its World Cup matches in Bangladesh as an alternative of India.

The PTI had on March 29 reported that ICC had declined that any such discussions occurred on the ICC discussion board and Bangladesh isn’t even in competition to host any World Cup match as BCCI had assured that visa received’t be an issue for the Pakistan staff.

The PCB clarified that the idea of a ”hybrid mannequin” of event was strictly pertaining to Asia Cup since India is not going to journey to Pakistan.

”Referring to the media discuss in Rawalpindi/Islamabad on Thursday, Mr Najam Sethi stated he had briefed the media on the hybrid mannequin he had introduced to the ACC officers for the ACC Asia Cup to finish the deadlock that had been created following the BCCI’s choice to not ship its staff to Pakistan. ”This proposal – to play India’s matches at a impartial venue and the remainder in Pakistan – is beneath discussions inside the ACC,” a PCB media launch acknowledged.

Sethi stated that he was misquoted by a bit of the media.

”At no stage throughout Thursday’s media interplay, did I give any reference to the ICC or made any remarks on the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023, which is scheduled in October. This matter has not been mooted or mentioned at any ICC discussion board to date,” Sethi stated within the press launch.

The PTI on Wednesday had spoken to ICC sources who had talked about that the matter was neither introduced up nor even mentioned informally and is a ”figment of creativeness”.

The PCB by means of media launch gave a rejoinder to considered one of its native english shops.

”In this background, the PCB is dissatisfied {that a} main English language newspaper has misquoted, misinterpreted and misrepresented Mr Sethi’s feedback and seemed that PCB’s hybrid mannequin was introduced and mentioned on the ICC, which is factually incorrect. ”At this stage, the PCB is barely in discussions with the ACC over the internet hosting of the ACC Asia Cup and no discussions relating to the World Cup have taken place with the ICC.”

However to pacify the nation’s media after an enormous face loss, PCB in its press launch did point out that the idea of ‘hybrid model’ might be mentioned later however even the bigwigs know that any such suggestion will probably be rejected on the onset. ”This is to not say that the hybrid mannequin is not going to be advocated on the correct ICC discussion board on the proper time,” it acknowledged ultimately.

It should be talked about that there’s little or no likelihood that ACC will cross the price range of Pakistan enjoying its Asia Cup matches at dwelling as an alternative of UAE or Qatar.

The solely risk will probably be that PCB should bear your complete prices, together with logistics of the broadcasters so as to host matches of their nation.