BCCI president Roger Binny and vice-president Rajeev Shukla to go to Lahore for Asia Cup

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Roger Binny and vice-president Rajeev Shukla shall be travelling to Lahore for Asia Cup following an invitation from the hosts Pakistan Cricket Board. This shall be first go to by any BCCI workplace bearers to the neighbouring nation for the reason that political rigidity arouse between each nations and introduced bilateral sequence between the 2 groups to a grinding halt.

The Indian Express understands that each the workplace bearers will watching Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan group match to be performed in Gaddafi Stadium on September 3. “BCCI president Binny and vice president Shukla will be going to Pakistan to watch few game. PCB had invited BCCI and as one of the key member of ACC, Binny and Shukla will be travelling to Pakistan,” a BCCI official confirmed to The Indian Express.

The event is being performed in Pakistan and Sri Lanka after India refused to journey to its neighbouring nation. Despite lot of push from PCB’s facet, BCCI secretary Jay Shah who can be the chief of Asian Cricket Council had revealed that the Indian group gained’t journey to Pakistan and following a number of spherical of talks, it was determined to conduct the occasion in a hybrid mannequin. Four matches shall be performed in Pakistan with Lahore internet hosting three matches after the event kick begins in Multan with Pakistan taking over Nepal on August 30.

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The Indian group shall be enjoying all their video games in Sri Lanka and far awaited India vs Pakistan shall be performed on September 2 in Pallekele.

The final time any BCCI consultant travelled to Pakistan was throughout India tour to Pakistan for Asia Cup in 2008. However, submit Mumbai terrorist assault cricketing ties got here to an halt and each the groups contest solely in multi nation event.

India and Pakistan are clubbed in the identical group together with Nepal and have a powerful likelihood of assembly once more within the Super 4 spherical in Colombo. Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan make the opposite group. The high two groups from the group stage advance to the Super 4, the place every group will play one another in a round-robin format. The high two will play the ultimate at R Premadasa Stadium on September 18.