PCB chief Mohsin Naqvi finally breaks silence on Asia Cup 2025 boycott U-turn

Pakistani Cricket Board (PCB) President Mohsin Naqvi finally, ICC, ICC and ICC, ICC, ICC, ICC, and after the ICC, and after the ICC, and the ICC, and the eight PYCROFT, after the task of the eighth Pycroft, despite the reasons to fulfill the reasons. match. PCB’s dramatic actions continued on Wednesday just a few hours before the start of the match against the UAE and resulted in a one -hour delay. The PCB has made every effort to replace Pycroft, but its initiatives failed.

Pycroft remained as a match referee for the competition between Pakistan and UAE, and just a few minutes before the start of the game, the PCB made a statement showing that Pycroft apologized for his behavior.

While the match between the UAE and Pakistan was postponed for an hour, Naqvi made talks with the former PCB leaders Ramiz Raja and Najam Sethi about the next steps and whether Pakistan would continue with the boycott that would result in elimination of the tournament.

Naqvi said that the decision to boycott was important and that the situation was under close observation. With the support of Pakistani Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif and other leading government officials, it was concluded that the team would stay in the tournament and compete against the UAE.

“As you all know, it has been a crisis since September 14th. We made objections about the role of the match referee. Shortly ago, the match referee said that he had made a speech with the team coach, the captain and the manager. He said that this event should not be realized.

“We believe that politics and sports cannot go together. We allow this sports and sports to stay. Cricket should be separate from all of this.

During the same press conference, Sethi said that the PCB continued to separate politics from sports and that it would remain unchanged. He also claimed that the global community did not react positively to the statements made by Suryakumar Yadav, the captain of India.

Sethi, “PCB’s aim was to always be politics in sports. I was a president, and that was the target; now this is the goal. They played politics, we did not do,” he said.

“We wanted an apology and they gave apology. Cricket winner. The world will support our ceiling and you all see the reaction of the world to India’s attitude,” he added.

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