Cricket World Cup: PCB file complaint over inappropriate conduct targeted at Pakan squad during match against India | Cricket-world-cup News
Pakan Cricket Board on Tuesday said that they have lodged a complaint over what they termed ‘inappropriate conduct’ aimed at Pakan players during their match against India at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
PCB also said that they have raised concerns to the International Cricket Coucil regarding delay in visas for Pakani journals as well as the absence of fans from the country for the World Cup campaign.
The governing body wrote on their official social media handle, “PCB has lodged another formal protest with the ICC over delays in visas for Pakani journals and the absence of a visa policy for Pakan fans for the ongoing World Cup 2023. The PCB has also filed a complaint regarding inappropriate conduct targeted at the Pakan squad during the India vs Pakan match held on 14 October 2023.”
At the toss of the match, captain Babar Azam was booed loudly when he attempted to speak to broadcaster Ravi Shastri. Videos later emerged on social media after the match where Pakan cricketer Mohmmad Rizwan was shown to be at the receiving end of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chants as he walked back to the dressing room.
The Pakan Cricket Board (PCB) has lodged another formal protest with the ICC over delays in visas for Pakani journals and the absence of a visa policy for Pakan fans for the ongoing World Cup 2023.
The PCB has also filed a complaint regarding inappropriate conduct…
— PCB Media (@TheRealPCBMedia) October 17, 2023
Before the highly-anticipated contest in Ahmedabad on Saturday, PCB had already called on the country’s foreign secretary to step in and solve the ongoing impasse for their journals and fans. According to PCB spokesperson Umar Farooq, the board’s management committee chairman Zaka Ashraf had met Pakan foreign secretary Syrus Sajjad, raising concerns about the visa delays faced their journals and fans for their travel to India. This meeting comes three days after the PCB first wrote to the ICC flagging concerns about the delay faced journals and fans from Pakan.
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After the defeat against Ahmedabad in front of an almost entirely Indian crowd, Pakan director Mickey Arthur had said that the event did not feel like a World Cup match when asked how it felt to play in front of virtually no support.
“It didn’t seem like an ICC event to be brutally honest. It seemed like a bilateral series; it seemed like a BCCI event. I didn’t hear Dil Dil Pakan coming through the microphones too often tonight,” Arthur had said.
“So yes, that does play a role, but I’m not going to use that as an excuse because for us it was about living the moment, it was about the next ball and it was about how we were going to combat the Indian players tonight.”
