PCB considering to boycott World T20

Shaharyar Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, was scheduled to meet the BCCI president Shashank Manohar in Mumbai earlier this week to discuss the series.

Shaharyar said on his return from India on Wednesday that Pakistan’s participation in the World T20 next year in India depended on what sort of response the Indian Board gave over the next week or so to the series in December.

Talks between the two Boards failed to get going on Monday after Shiv Sena activists attacked the BCCI office in Mumbai, protesting any cricket with Pakistan. So we said, if this is the security situation then for us to go there will be very hard.

He added: ‘You have seen the conditions there.

He asked “What I feel is that the government will say “do not go to an ICC tournament in India”.

We don’t yet know whether there will be a faceoff between the traditional rivals, Pakistan and India, or not but one this is for sure: the two biggies of PCB are at loggerheads right now. We will not have security enough there, he underlined. “And when you close the doors to art you open up a door for dark and unwanted things to come in”, he told Times Of India. “There was no discussion about Pak-India cricket series between them”, said Khan.

According to the Dawn, PCB chairman Shahryar Khan hasn’t ruled out the prospects of an India-Pakistan series entirely as further dialogue could be held after the conclusion of the ongoing ODI series between India and South Africa. “If the Indian government doesn’t take action against then it means they are the ones who are exaggerating the matter”, he said.