Pakistan Cricket Board executive committee’s chairman Najam Sethi on Tuesday that the country’s cricket board will “give a befitting response to Anurag Thakur” in the upcoming ICC board meeting, after the BCCI chief told the cricket’s governing body not to put Pakistan and India in the same pool during the multi-national tournaments.
The two neighbours have not competed in a full-fledged bilateral series after the Mumbai Attacks in 2008 soared Indo-Pak diplomatic ties.
Talking about giving an honourable exit to former T20 captain Shahid Afridi, the executive committee’s chairman said: “Afridi is a star player and we will do everything for him.”
His statement regarding the flamboyant all-rounder came on the day when Afridi made his international debut 20 years back with a swashbuckling maiden One-Day century in just 37 balls, a world record at that time.
“I will be meeting Shahid Afridi and will discuss the situation with him”, he added.
“We don’t want to disturb the team’s professionalism for merely a tradition.”
Sethi further said that he had the full support of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to organise the final of the second edition Pakistan Super League (PSL) in Lahore.
The inaugural edition of PSL was held in Dubai and Sharjah earlier this year.
“We have the full support of Punjab Chief Minister and we are in touch with the administration to organise PSL final in Lahore,” he concluded.
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