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Cricket: India trying to bankrupt Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka boards, says Ashraf
Says BCCI president refused Pak-India series due to government pressure, team India is losing fans.
Chairman Zaka Ashraf says BCCI trying to bankrupt cricket boards in the region. PHOTO: EXPRESS
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Zaka Ashraf on Wednesday said that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) was trying to bankrupt the cricket boards in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
However, talking to a private news channel, Ashraf said that the PCB was doing well financially.
The PCB chief also spoke about his discussions with BCCI President S Sri Nawason on restoration of Pak-India cricketing ties and how the latter had declined the offer, saying that his government would not allow it. He added that the Indian cricket team was losing fans.
In recent years, team India has faced humiliating defeats, including a test series whitewash in England and Australia.
Earlier Ashraf had said that the national team’s recent resurgence had left arch-rivals India afraid to take them on and is forcing delays in resumption of bilateral ties.
“We’re ready to play against them when their prime minister and board president want the teams to play. Maybe it’s their selectors and team management who are afraid of facing Pakistan,” Ashraf had said.
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President S Sri Nawason ???
Really ? there is no BCCI President named S Sri Nawason hahhah
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lol he is on offensive again perhaps thats the right thing to deal with Indians. They are arrogant c**ts and PCB should stop talking about series against them. We are already playing cricket with better teams then India
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Absolutely True.
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lol, how juvenile!
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the mans got guts :O
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hello sir, let us just talk about our country pakistan… no need for you to bring bangladesh and SL in picture. They are thousand times better than our country to manage their own board and no one has asked us to poke nose around. Forget our cricket board, our entire country is bankrupt. What nonsense are you talking about? Such tall claims dont suit a chairman who players are known all over for match fixing and who has no clue when the entire country is begging all over world for little money. Lets learn to mind our own business.
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An investor’s mind in play here. Zaka needs to walk on a fine line between threat and provocation . Either it will earn PCB better international fixtures or just a new warpath. Lets see.
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Yes, Indian team is very scared to play against Pakistan. And since you know it, why bother playing with India anyways?? Why are you even trying for it?? Has Indian board approached Pakistan for matches, never…so what are you talking about?? In what way is BCCI making other boards bankrupt???
India wishes you well, for playing and winning whoever you play against and it ends there. Is Indian board commenting about you or your players? Then why do you have to make any such statements??
All Indian fans wish you well that Afghanistan is coming to play with you and that too in Pakistan….Congratulations
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LOL. Dont hear any complains from SL cricket or Bangladesh Cricket. Is this guy running them too. He wants to dictate to BCCI what they should do…Where do you find these guys.
If begging does not work, try allegations, if that does not work try provoking. What Next- threat of using terrorists? Pakistan does seem to have an unending supply of these “chiefs”.. Thought Butt was the last one.
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chairman of the cricket board shouldn’t be making such childish statements
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Why does these cricket boards PCB, SLC always want to play with India Team and get more money from ads and Telecast. If you dont have strategies to develop cricket in your own country and make many, then you will become bankrupt.
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To put it another way..PCB asked BCCI to bail them out (yet again) after ICC members boycotted playing in Pakistan post the attack on the Sri Lankan team. BCCI said it can’t help them this time as the matter has another angle 26/11 attack and the related cut off in ties (sports included). Hence, this accusation. Shame on PCB!
If people remember it was BCCI which hosted the 1996 world cup along with Pakistan. The recent one also was a joint effort till other countries withdrew. If BCCI wanted, it could have easily hosted both without sharing the spoils with anyone. It isn’t difficult to understand. Blame the BCCI for all your problems. Can’t you ask the Aussies to come to Pak and play?
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Mr. Zaka, Indo-Pakistan relations carries much deeper wounds; situation demands quite diplomacy not brinkmanship. I really thought you will be better than the predecessor in your dealings with the Indian board but you seem to be indulging in loud-mouthing, which will only add more fuel to the fire.
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@Mr Zaka Ashraf
Wrong number.(no one called mr Nawson in BCCI)
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Again a childish statement.
Buffalo has gone inside the water (Gayi bhains paani me)!
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Be Rest assured that even after being snubbed by indian board , Mr Zaka ashraf will travel to India again to plead them to play.
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This was an odd article. After a sensational headline there is absolutely no explanation whatsoever of what it was talking about. Not only is that shoddy reporting, its shoddy editing. ET should really do a better job explaining what in the world its headline is about. How is India trying to bankrupt other boards? By doing what? Refusing to play series against them? Charging high fees? Not sharing match revenues? Surely the statement needs some kind of elaboration?
On another note, I’d love to see a Pakistan-India match in the near future.
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This is not diplomacy stupid ! group up you are a chairman of a national board.
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PCB Chairmen shouldn’t give any statement like that…He should try to make better relations with Asia’s Cricket Boards rather than trying to making those relation more mismanage..
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Does Mr.Ashraf have any shame at all? India is not willing to play cricket with Pakistan and this guy is blowing hot and cold because of the rejection of his cricket ties. He is disgracing his country by this idiotic juvinile behaviour. First Pakistan had the infamous butt and this guy seems to even beat butt in the game of infancy and immaturity.
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Dont bother about BCCI or Mr Sri Nawason. Strike a deal with Lalit Modi. He is free nowadays and was the brain behind the wealth of BCCI. He will gladly accept your offer if only to teach the BCCI folks a good lesson. Anyways BCCI is responsible for the poor performance of the Indian team in test matches in England and Australia.
Current joke going in FB
Teacher – Which Indians fought the British?
Student – Sachin, Sehwag, Lakshman, Harbhajan……
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Highly immature comment. Earlier he said that Indians cricketers are afraid and now he is targeting their board. Complete rhetoric. If by winning 3 matches can create this state of mind then what would happen if pak team wins 10 matches ??
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It is a trick to convey Indian team to go to pak where terrorists had attacked SL cricket players. No one would go there . It is a political issue , u know better than us.
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Suddenly team starts playing well(inspite of PCB) and India is on a downward slide, PCB honchos start bragging and inciting and start talking like juveniles. Also it is amazing they also try to be spokepersons for Sri lanka and bangladesh boards. Grow up guys and realize you are representing a country of 180 million people.
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this seems to be a desperate cry of PCB to attract any or some kind of attention about their despondent situation. if not for India and BCCI ,there wouldn’t have been any cricket in Asia by now.so mr zaka, can keep his bombastic team where it belong to,we neither need PCB nor it’s players to prove our worth, BCCI is still a richest sporting body in the world and i don’t see that changing in near future…
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The people of India haven’t recovered still from the Mumbai attacks!
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PCB chief is trying to form a political fron of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Srilnaka against BCCI. Interesting to watch how he will fare.
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@shaq
You made my day!! after awful days work you comment rely made me smileRecommend
it’s a fact that India consistently (the record speaks for itself) losing to Pakistan was a national disaster. India had to stem this somehow as the entire nation would be depressed. So, their strategy was to just stop playing Pakistan altogether and only pick and choose to play Pakistan and made sure that they won in those matches largely due to rigging!
In India it’s all about the image as they are very self conscious and the whole Bollywood industry is also a perception tool to divert peoples attention to the reality on the ground in India.
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Indians are afraid,if they played us we will gift them a third “WHITEWASH”.(with innings defeat)
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@IlovePK:
Recently England gave Pakistan a bigger whitewash
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