No decision on Indo-Pak World Cup clash yet: CoA

February 22, 2019 15:31

The Committee of Administrators (CoA) running Indian cricket, on Friday, decided against taking any stand on the World Cup clash against Pakistan but said it would individually urge ICC members to "sever ties with any nation that is a terrorist hub". There has been a call to boycott the June 16 World Cup face-off against Pakistan at the Old Trafford in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack, which killed more than 40 CRPF personnel.

In a meeting to address the spiralling speculation around the match, the CoA deliberated on the matter but did not take any position for now. Committee of Administrators chairman Vinod Rai and member Diana Edulji spoke about the issue after the meeting. Briefly, this is what Rai said:

-- No decision yet on India's World Cup match against Pakistan. A call will be taken later.

-- BCCI will submit concerns on Pak to the ICC via an email. "We will express concerns to ICC. We are in talks with government on scheduled India-Pakistan clash in World Cup," Rai said.

-- There will be no IPL opening ceremony, and the money that was to be spent on the ceremony will be donated to the families of the CRPF jawans to who died in the Pulwama encounter.

-- The BCCI has also asked for more security for players during the ICC world cup.

-- The BCCI email also suggests to the ICC that the cricket community in the future should not play with countries from where terror emanates.

"We'll write to ICC expressing our concerns about attacks that took place and that security of players, officials and everybody else must be taken care of. We're telling cricketing community that in future we must sever ties with nations from where terror emanates," Rai said.

Rai added that 16th June (India vs Pakistan match in World Cup) is very far away. "We will take a call on that much later and in consultations with the government," he said.

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