Pakistan team’s World Cup preparations have suffered a setback due to the non-availability of visas. They had to cancel their plans to organize a two-day camp in Dubai before the World Cup to be held in India. Pakistan is the only team among the remaining 9 teams participating in the ODI World Cup to be played in India from October 5. These have not yet received a visa for the World Cup this information has been given by ESPNcricinfo in its report.
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Pakistan team would first go to Dubai on Monday
According to this report, the plan of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) was that the Pakistan team would first go to Dubai on Monday stay there for a few days, and then catch a flight to Hyderabad on Wednesday. Before the World Cup, Pakistan has to play two warm-up matches against New Zealand and Australia on 29 September and 3 October at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.
Pakistan team has not yet received visa clearance for the World Cup
Due to visa, he had to cancel his plan to stay in Dubai. Now the Pakistani team will go from Lahore to Dubai on Wednesday. And then after getting the visa, leave for Hyderabad on the same day. The PCB authorities are hopeful that the Pakistani cricketers and support staff will get the necessary visa permission from India before traveling to Hyderabad.
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Once again the ongoing political tension between India and Pakistan has been highlighted.
The problem of visa delays is not new and has once again highlighted the ongoing political tensions between India and Pakistan. Travel between the two countries has been limited since the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008. This attack also disrupted bilateral relations between the two countries. Since this terrorist attack, only one bilateral series has been held between India and Pakistan. Then the Pakistani team came to India to play a limited-overs series in 2012–13 under the captaincy of Misbah Ul Haq.
India has not toured Pakistan for a bilateral series since 2006. India last toured Pakistan in 2008 for the Asia Cup.
This will also be Pakistan’s first tour of India since the 2016 T20 World Cup.
This will also be Pakistan’s first tour of India since the 2016 T20 World Cup. Of the 15 players included in Pakistan’s World Cup team. This will be the first tour of India for all the Pakistani players except spin all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz. Nawaz had come to India with the Pakistan team playing in the 2016 T20 World Cup.
There has also been tension between BCCI and PCB
Not only has there been a political crisis between the two countries. But there has also been a lot of tension between the cricket boards BCCI and PCB. India had refused to go to Pakistan to play Asia Cup 2023. Because of this, for the first time, the tournament was played in a hybrid model and all of India’s matches including the final were held in Sri Lanka. However, a lot of discussions took place between the PCB and BCCI before reaching a consensus. PCB had even threatened that if India did not go to Pakistan for the Asia Cup. Then Pakistan would boycott the ODI World Cup.
