Pakistan cricket workforce continues to be battling the visa difficulty forward of flying to India for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023. After cancelling their workforce bonding journey to Dubai, the Pakistan workforce is scheduled to fly to Dubai on Wednesday, September 27 morning after which to Hyderabad on the identical day within the night. Nonetheless, regardless of with simply lower than 48 hours remaining, the Indian visa hasn’t been issued to the Pakistan facet.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) raised the problem with the ICC final week and wrote about the identical, nevertheless, it hasn’t been resolved but and PCB spokesperson Umar Farooq expressed his disappointment with how the matter has been dealt with, given it’s taking place earlier than an enormous occasion just like the World Cup.
“There was a rare delay in getting clearance and securing Indian visas for the Pakistan workforce for the ICC World Cup. We’ve got written to ICC elevating our considerations about inequitable therapy in direction of Pakistan and reminding them of those obligations in direction of the World Cup,” Farooq was quoted as saying by ESPNCricinfo.
“It is a matter of disappointment that the Pakistan workforce has to undergo this uncertainty forward of the key event. We’ve got been reminding [the organisers] about their obligations from final three years and it has all come all the way down to the final two days with our first heat sport scheduled on September 29. We have been compelled to cancel our unique plan to organise team-building workout routines in Dubai on the way in which to India. We’ve got needed to rework our plan and e book new flights, however these plans are topic to issuance of visas,” he additional added.
The visa utility from PCB started in August final week however with Asia Cup being hybrid, the workforce was travelling back and forth between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as per the report. For utility passports have been wanted and therefore, that might occur solely on September 19. The visa state of affairs between the 2 international locations has been affected as a consequence of political local weather. Since 2012, the bilaterals between the 2 international locations have not occurred and the one time Pakistan got here to India was in 2016 for the T20 World Cup.
The Indian delegation went to Pakistan through the current Asia Cup for the primary time since 2008 and since BCCI refused to journey to Pakistan for the Asia Cup, the event was performed within the hybrid mannequin.
Pakistan play their first warm-up sport in Hyderabad on Friday, September 29 in opposition to New Zealand and might be hoping to be in India in time to organize for the match.
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