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Calling Pakistan's boycott of their T20 World Cup lucifer against India an "appropriate decision, the country's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that it was a "considered stance" to enactment Bangladesh.
Pakistan's cricket squad has been told by the authorities to skip the February 15 crippled successful Colombo aft Bangladesh were replaced by Scotland for refusing to play its games successful India connected relationship of "security concerns".
"We person taken a precise wide basal connected the T20 World Cup that we won't play the lucifer against India due to the fact that determination should beryllium nary authorities connected the sports field,” Mr. Sharif stated aft a authorities meeting.
"We person taken a precise considered stance, and we should wholly basal by Bangladesh, and I deliberation this is simply a precise due decision. We are with Bangladesh," helium added.
A livid ICC has warned the Pakistan Cricket Board of superior consequences if it fails to amusement up for the high-profile match, which is simply a wealth magnet astatine the large lawsuit for sponsors, broadcasters and advertisers.
The satellite assemblage has hoped that the PCB volition "consider the important and semipermanent implications for cricket successful its ain state arsenic this is apt to interaction the planetary cricket ecosystem, which it is itself a subordinate and beneficiary of."
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Pakistan has reached Colombo for its different preliminary engagements, starting with a crippled against the Netherlands connected Saturday (February 7, 2026).
The country's cricket committee has already made it wide that it supports the government's presumption and would spell by its proposal adjacent if a rematch against India crops up during the knockout stage.
Bangladesh's refusal to question to India for its stock of matches was aft its pacer Mustafizur Rahman was ousted from the IPL connected BCCI's instructions. The Indian Board did not specify the reasons but it came amid accrued attacks connected Hindus there.
