Dec 2 (Reuters) – Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ramiz Raja stated on Friday that he noticed no cause for India and Pakistan to not host one another in Test and white-ball video games.

Bilateral cricket between the archrivals stays suspended, due to their soured political relation, and feelings run excessive on each side of the border at any time when they conflict in multi-team tournaments.

“There is no reason why India couldn’t come to Pakistan and Pakistan go to India,” Raja told Test Match Special.

“Both boards need to come to terms with whether we want to play each other or not.”

Pakistan are to host the 2023 Asia Cup, however Secretary of the Indian board Jay Shah, who additionally heads the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), said on Oct. 19 India wouldn’t journey to Pakistan for the Asia Cup, and that the event itself can be shifted to a impartial venue.

“India cannot come because the government will not allow them because that has been the stated position, but to take the Asia Cup away from us is just not right,” Raja stated.

“Why give it to us in the first place and then make all those statements that India will not travel?”

Raja added that the England and Wales Cricket Board and Cricket Australia must do extra to assist the state of affairs.

“The neutral cricket boards that have held important positions, when they keep quiet, frustrates me completely,” Raja stated.

“The International Cricket Council has to think out of the box and work better.”

Pakistan final performed in India for the T20 World Cup in 2016, whereas India haven’t visited Pakistan for the reason that 2008 Asia Cup.

International groups have primarily prevented Pakistan since an assault by Islamist militants on the Sri Lankan workforce bus in Lahore in 2009 killed six policemen and two civilians.

Reporting by Tommy Lund in Gdansk
Editing by Matthew Lewis

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