The Champions Trophy 2025 is scheduled to be played in Pakistan but BCCI has asked ICC to hold the Indian team’s matches in Dubai or Sri Lanka because it doesn’t want to send team India to Pakistan.
The political relations between both the nations are not quite cordial for a long time now and it has also affected the sports relations between the two countries.
While PCB has left it on ICC to persuade BCCI to send team India to Pakistan, the former Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik has asked BCCI to send the Indian team.
Here’s what he said in an interview, “Whatever reservations there are between the countries, that’s a separate issue and should be solved separately. Politics shouldn’t come into sports. The Pakistan team went to India last year, and now it’s a good opportunity for the Indian team too. I think there are many players in the Indian team who haven’t played in Pakistan, so it would be great for them. Hum bahut acche log hai (we are good people). We’re very hospitable people, so I’m sure the Indian team should definitely come.”
Do you agree that politics shouldn’t come into sports?
