Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has rubbished the claims made by the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Sourav Ganguly, who recently claimed that the Asia Cup 2020 had been canceled. A PCB spokesman on Wednesday said that Ganguly’s statements held no bearing on the proceedings while emphasising that the final decision would be announced by the President of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), Nazmul Hasan. “The statements made by Sourav Ganguly have no impact on proceedings. Even if he passes comments every week, they do not hold weight or merit. The decision regarding the Asia Cup will be taken by the ACC. The announcement can only be made by the president of the Asian body Nazmul Hasan. To the best of our knowledge, the schedule of the next ACC meeting is yet to be announced,” the spokesman added.

The statement from the high-ranking PCB official comes after the recent statement made by Ganguly, who claimed that the Asia Cup 2020 had been cancelled while speaking on Sports Tak. “In December, we have the first full series. Asia Cup 2020 has been called-off which was scheduled to take place in September,” Sourav Ganguly told Vikrant Gupta on a live Instagram chat. “Asia Cup 2020 has been cancelled,” he added. Meanwhile, the ACC President Nazmul Hasan is yet to comment on the issue. The event has been the subject of speculation for a long while due to the disruption of global events caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Pakistan was originally expected to host the event in the UAE in the month of September while speculations ran rampant that the tournament might be moved to Sri Lanka due to Covid-19. The Indian Premier League (IPL), which has been indefinitely postponed, might be the biggest reason why the BCCI would look to cancel the major event in order to free up a window in their global calendar however an official final decision is still pending on the matter.