“I just don’t understand what he Thakur wants to say”, said Yousuf.
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In the circumstance of what’s occurred even contemplating this kind of notion is inappropriate he told reporters when asked if there’s any strategy to play cricket.
Chetan made a rather bold statement, wanting India to stop all forms of relations with Pakistan be it sports, films or something else. “We can’t even think of such thing (playing cricket with Pakistan)”, said Thakur.
The publication also reported a top official of the PCB saying that Thakur’s statement had caught them by surprise. And when all this keeps happening at the border it is not just hard but also not right to have cricket between the two.”We all want India-Pakistan to play cricket but if they want to play then they (Pakistan) have to stop all this cross-border terrorism”.
“It is an out and out political statement from the president of the BCCI”.
“The last time we went to India in 2012 as a goodwill gesture for a short series of one-day and T20 matches but since 2007 the Indian board has avoided playing us at a bilateral level in a full series”, he noted.
The ICC World Twenty20 in March-April, the high-profile India-Pakistan match scheduled at Dharamshala was later shifted to Kolkata after Himachal Pradesh government failed to promis required security to players and staff.
Yousuf, however, called for the International Cricket Council (ICC) to act on Thakur’s comments. “Either he speaks as a BJP leader or a BCCI head”, said former Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf, as quoted by the Indian Express.
Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly said that cricket between both countries have always affected by the terrorist activities.
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