The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had introduced its 12-month schedule for each the lads’s and ladies’s groups final month. Whereas the lads’s staff can be internet hosting the 2019 World Cup finalists in England and New Zealand, they’d even be touring for away bilateral sequence and one among them is the Sri Lankan tour scheduled for July-August this 12 months.
Sri Lanka is at the moment going through its worst-ever financial disaster which has triggered plenty of unrest within the nation as the general public has resorted to violent protests on the streets towards the federal government. Australia’s Sri Lanka tour is unsure for a similar purpose. Nonetheless, the PCB has assured that they’d be sending their staff to the island nation for the two-match Check sequence and the bilateral sequence is on regardless of the state of affairs.
We now have no points touring Sri Lanka: PCB official
“We’re at all times able to assist Sri Lanka Cricket even in tough instances and we’ve got no points touring the nation for the check sequence,” a PCB official mentioned as quoted by The Hindu. The political and financial rigidity in Sri Lanka has worsened to such an extent that it has utterly stopped the published of the continued IPL 2022 within the nation.
Whereas each Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and Cricket Australia (CA) are in talks to conduct the all-format bilateral sequence in June-July regardless of tensions within the ‘Emerald Island’, their rights of internet hosting the Asia Cup in August-September are in jeopardy.
In the meantime, it has been reported that the choice on the Asia Cup 2022 internet hosting rights would possibly effectively be taken on the finish of this month submit the conclusion of the Indian Premier League on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Stories additionally state that the SLC officers would possibly fly all the way down to Ahmedabad for the IPL last when the choice on the Asia Cup is prone to be taken.
So far as the nation’s political situation is anxious, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as the brand new Sri Lankan Prime Minister after Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned from his place on Might 9.
