Pakistan quick Junaid Khan: “Cricket should happen between both countries but it doesn’t look like it will take place for the next two or four years”
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Pakistan left-arm fast bowler Junaid Khan believes the men in green will have to continue waiting to play a bilateral series against India.
Former Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Zaka Ashraf: “They were hesitant to go ahead with this proposal because of the extremist elements in India like [Narendra] Modi”
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Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf said India were hesitant to play Pakistan during his tenure due to “extremist elements” like the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Ramiz Raja: “The current format was lopsided and prolonged and it made no sense not having [an] India and Pakistan series”
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Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja believes India and Pakistan should play each other in the World Test Championship.
New ICC chairman Greg Barclay: “I would love nothing more than for India and Pakistan to be able to continue cricketing relations as they were previously”
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Newly-elected ICC chairman Greg Barclay has said that he wants to see India and Pakistan playing bilateral series on a regular basis.
Wasim Khan on India-Pakistan bilateral series: “We need to move on from this whole idea because whilst this current government is in place in India, the chances of bilateral series happening are dim”
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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief executive Wasim Khan admitted that it’s looking dim in regards to bilateral series between India and Pakistan resuming.
Shahid Afridi: “With Modi in power, I don’t see it’s going to happen”
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Legendary all-rounder Shahid Afridi has said that as long as India Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in power, bilateral series between India and Pakistan will never happen.
Ehsan Mani: “The ICC (International Cricket Council) constitution says there should be no government interference. So, I think ICC should be talking to them [BCCI]”
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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani has urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) to investigate the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for government interference.
Wasim Khan: “We’re certainly not going to beg India to play us. Life moves on, I just say to people to lower their expectations about playing India in the next 10-12 years”
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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief executive Wasim Khan has admitted that India and Pakistan may not play a bilateral series for another 10 to 12 years.
Wasim Akram: “We Pakistanis have moved on. We love our cricket and we’ll play with other nations but we’re not going to go after India and ask them to play us”
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Legendary left-arm seamer Wasim Akram has made it clear that Pakistan are “not going to go after India and ask them to play us”.
Imran Khan: “Right now, playing cricket in this atmosphere with this sort of a government in power, I would imagine it would be a terrible atmosphere on the cricket ground”
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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that India and Pakistan can’t play a bilateral series right now since “I would imagine it would be a terrible atmosphere on the cricket ground”.
