Why India did not play Asia Cup matches in Pakistan? Chairman PCB's reaction

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00:00 India was not ready to come to Pakistan.

00:02 That's why they kept the hybrid model.

00:05 But the same India, which was not ready to come,

00:08 the Indian cricket board, which was not ready to send its team,

00:11 what did you tell Gidhar Singh,

00:14 that his president came to Pakistan.

00:16 What was the benefit of his coming?

00:18 And now, will you also go to the World Cup?

00:21 So that this commitment that we went,

00:23 your team came to us.

00:25 Will you open a way?

00:26 I feel that India is also a great nation, a cricketing nation, like Pakistan.

00:32 So both are great cricketing nations.

00:35 And I always tell India that India is bigger than Pakistan,

00:39 there is no match in the world.

00:41 When you are playing in both these teams,

00:43 then no one comes in the competition with it.

00:48 In fact, I proposed to India,

00:51 you keep a Gandhi Jinnah trophy,

00:53 we play on every alternate year,

00:55 once in India, once in Pakistan.

00:57 And whichever trophy,

00:59 like the matches, like the Ashes, we do it.

01:02 So they laughed at my words,

01:04 that how can this be possible?

01:06 I said, there are two great leaders,

01:07 one is Qadiazab Muhammad Ali Jinnah,

01:09 and on the other hand, Mahatma Gandhi,

01:11 both of them keep a trophy in the name of a joint.

01:14 I gave them this suggestion, but they...

01:16 Now you are going to the bilateral series,

01:18 to talk about going to the World Cup,

01:19 there is a bilateral series.

01:20 Now the second thing you said,

01:21 that India was not looking at us,

01:23 how did you bring Roger Minnie and Rajiv Shukla?

01:28 So as soon as I came to the board,

01:30 I came with all the boards,

01:32 to make my relations, to do well,

01:35 and especially with India.

01:37 There is a lot of respect,

01:38 because in India and Pakistan's bilateral relations,

01:42 my role was to end the conflict.

01:46 I did it in that.

01:48 And when I went to India,

01:51 I used to give 40 interviews to our channels every day.

01:54 And I used to tell them,

01:56 that the Pakistani people are a cricketing nation,

02:00 and we want our message to reach the Indian cricketing nation,

02:04 that we want brotherhood, we want friendship,

02:07 and we should have a relationship,

02:09 in which both the countries,

02:11 there should be more friendship in the relations of cricket.

02:15 Right.

02:16 And I am very thankful to the Indian people,

02:19 and their board,

02:20 that not a single one of them was misled.

02:23 Not a single one of them,

02:24 went to the stadium,

02:26 we sat there, everyone was laughing,

02:28 for the Pakistani crowd,

02:30 I am thankful to the Indian government,

02:32 that they gave 4000 visas on my request.

02:36 The entire enclosure was of Pakistan, in Delhi.

02:39 Here the Indians were sitting, I also went and sat in the enclosure.

02:42 It was cold, the temperature was 0 degrees,

02:43 I said, I want to sit with my Pakistani nation.

02:46 Right.

02:47 We used to whistle from here, they used to whistle from there.

02:49 And it was so good, and in a funny way,

02:51 we were backing up our team,

02:53 which was part of the game.

02:55 And no one said anything useless,

02:59 or bad.

02:59 No one was misled.

03:00 No one said anything like that.

03:02 And we sat back,

03:04 their four federal ministers came,

03:06 they said, you didn't come to the VIP,

03:09 come and have tea with us here.

03:10 I sat with them.

03:12 They said, Shireen ji, what did you get?

03:15 We took all the money,

03:17 you are just playing the match.

03:20 I said, the one who loves something,

03:23 gets that.

03:24 You take the money,

03:26 we are winning the trophy.

03:28 We are taking the honor, you take the money.

03:31 They said, you have given us a good answer,

03:33 what are you saying?

03:34 Right, right.

03:35 I also said the same thing in a similar way.

03:37 And Allah gave us,

03:39 and Misbah and Faiz were with me.

03:41 We took the trophy and went to Lahore, Pakistan.

03:44 And its

03:45 a different feeling of excitement and people.

03:48 Chairman sir, last two questions I wanted to ask you.

03:51 Hybrid model,

03:52 Asia Cup,

03:54 you made it in Sri Lanka,

03:55 you made the cricket board of this umrah in Sri Lanka.

03:57 What did Pakistan get?

03:59 Pakistan,

04:00 its revenue was less because the stadium was empty,

04:03 there were matches in the rain.

04:05 Along with that, you didn't weaken the case for the Champions Trophy.

04:08 Now, any team can object,

04:10 that we didn't go, come out and play with us.

04:12 And play on a hybrid model.

04:14 Before coming to the board,

04:17 the IPC ministry called me and I went there.

04:20 The media was sitting there,

04:22 I am not very keen to project myself.

04:27 I went there and they asked the same question,

04:30 as you said.

04:31 I said, first of all,

04:32 I am against the hybrid model.

04:34 I gave it, its on air,

04:36 its in the record.

04:37 And I said, Pakistan,

04:39 we should go and play Pakistan's matches.

04:42 We should host the Asia Cup and pray.

04:45 May Allah give the return to the Indian team.

04:50 And we have best wishes for them and India.

04:53 And similarly,

04:54 if they don't come,

04:56 we should lobby and convince them.

04:59 We should convince India,

05:00 and other Asian countries.

05:02 And all the matches should be here.

05:04 India is our friend country,

05:06 our brother.

05:07 We don't want any enmity or fight with anyone.

05:09 And I respect the Indian crowd,

05:12 Indian cricketers,

05:13 Indian journalists,

05:14 and BCCI.

05:16 So why can't we work together?

05:18 If Australia, England,

05:21 South Africa,

05:23 all the countries are coming,

05:25 why can't India come?

05:27 India is a great cricketing nation,

05:29 with all my respect.

05:31 I think we should work together,

05:32 think on these lines.

05:33 And whatever security and safety they need,

05:35 we will provide it.

05:37 So that they come to Pakistan,

05:39 and play like we play in India.

05:41 And our bilateral relations become stronger.

05:45 Because I have always said,

05:47 India is no bigger than Pakistan.

05:49 There is no bigger game in the world.

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