PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan has said Pakistan ‘can survive’ without playing cricket against India and the chances of bilateral series against India are highly doubtful.
According to local media reports Shaharyar said, “It’s not that we can’t survive without playing them. We are surviving, and can survive, but our position is that the game shouldn’t be mixed up with the politics. So we are trying to get the series revived based on the MoU they have signed with us. They have to honour it and if they don’t it’s their responsibility”.
“Given the present circumstance, the chances of a Pakistan-India series look bleak and we have to live with the fact that India is not going to play us. At the same time the BCCI hasn't formally refused us, but we can't wait long amid this uncertainty and have got to have an alternative plan. We will wait for another couple of months before forcing our plan B,” he added.
While hoping for some improvement in the relationship between the two neighbours in the near future, Shaharyar stressed on the point that cricket should not suffer between politics. “I hope the climate [in Pakistan-India relations] will improve but at the moment it’s more a political tension … the relationship between the countries is complex but cricket shouldn’t be suffering, it is after all something that can be a tool to lower the tension”.
The chances of the bilateral series against India are very less, looking at the current political situation between two nations.
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