Lahore: PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf has expressed annoyance at the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) decision to put their proposed tour of Pakistan on hold a second time and hinted to stop Pakistani players’ participating in Bangladesh Premier League (BPL).
Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) will begin on January 18. The BPL is clashing with the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Pakistan’s leading first-class event.
“We will take a principled stance on BPL,” Ashraf said, “but one thing is sure our players might not be free as we are making our own arrangements from next year.”
He said that PCB-related commitments may occupy most of the players’ time and that, “they may not be bothered for other things.”
The chairman reacted aggressively on the refusal of BCB and said that Pakistan will ‘reconsider’ its bilateral ties with Bangladesh after the BCB, once again, backed down from going ahead with the tour. Pakistan, he said, will not sacrifice their interests for those who do not honour their words.
“If they don’t want to come its their own decision and we didn’t force them,” Zaka told ESPNcricinfo.
Ashraf said, it was “almost confirmed” that Bangladesh would tour Pakistan, but found it “strange” that they had pulled out from their commitment. The PCB’s efforts to revive international cricket in Pakistan, according to Ashraf, was on track. “Soon we will manage to get a better team to tour Pakistan than Bangladesh.”
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