Visas have lastly been granted to Pakistan’s cricket gamers, simply in time for the upcoming ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023, set to kick off in India on October 5.
The Males in Inexperienced are actually set to depart for Hyderabad, India, by way of Dubai on Wednesday morning. Their first World Cup warm-up match is slated in opposition to New Zealand on Friday, September 29, in Hyderabad.
BIG BREAKING: Pakistan and Afghanistan have been issued visas for the World Cup. Each groups can journey as per their plans @ICC #ICCWorldCup
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) September 25, 2023
Nevertheless, it wasn’t a easy journey for Pakistan to safe these visas. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) formally expressed their dissatisfaction with the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) earlier immediately as a result of vital delay in acquiring Indian visas. Of their written communication to the ICC, the PCB voiced their considerations and identified the Host-Member settlement that governs worldwide sporting occasions of this nature.
The letter from PCB acknowledged, “Now we have been discussing this challenge for 3 years, however nobody paid consideration to our considerations. And now, the scenario has escalated to the purpose the place we’re nonetheless awaiting visas. We’re in a state of uncertainty as a result of lack of response from the involved authorities. Initially, we had deliberate to remain in Dubai for 2 days earlier than continuing to Hyderabad, however resulting from this visa challenge, we needed to cancel that journey. Each time we reached out to the involved authorities, we have been assured that the visas can be issued inside 24 hours. Nevertheless, with every passing day, the uncertainty is rising, and it’s inflicting anxiousness amongst everybody concerned.”
Because of these visa delays, Pakistan needed to abandon their preliminary plan of a two-day journey to Dubai earlier than heading to Hyderabad for the World Cup.