The suggestion had first been floated by an Australian – double World Cup winner, Brad Hogg, who in his very honest, if barely naive considering, spoke of his brainwave.
Hogg had advised that India and Pakistan assemble a cricket stadium alongside the border, collectively owned or owned by neither, the place they might partake in cricketing contests, that had been so emotive for not simply each international locations however all the cricketverse.
However a day after ICC introduced a hybrid mannequin for future India Pakistan video games – at all times a impartial venues, neither travelling to the opposite aspect, former Pakistan participant Ahmed Shehzad constructed a sarcastic scaffolding alongside the utopian stadium construction.
He hinted that half of the bottom – say, leg or off aspect – may not be guarded as a result of Indians will deny Pakistan fielders a visa.
At the same time as Pakistan TV channels debated if this was a W for Pakistan, or a L, Shehzad went on Nadir Ali’s podcast and provided, “There ought to be a stadium on the border with one gate in India and the opposite in Pakistan. Their gamers can enter from there and our cricketers from right here.” To this point, so good.
Nonetheless he was instantly bitten by the fact of the state of affairs as he added in a sullen sigh, that BCCI won’t enable that. “I believe the BCCI and the Indian authorities could have an issue with that. They’ll say that if our gamers come to their aspect of the bottom, the visa won’t be given,” he stated, sarcastically.
Many in Pakistan media view the hybrid mannequin and written assurance as a tit-for-tat win, if Indians refuse to journey to Pakistan, the Pakistan group gained’t journey both. Nonetheless there’s basic despondency over the finality that India won’t step foot in Pakistan on the Champions Trophy. In his personal inimitable model although, Shehzad sulked about being denied to subject on considered one of leg or off sides.
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