No opening ceremony for ICC Cricket World Cup 2023
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00:00 As you know, the World Cup will start on 5th of August.
00:04 But the warm-ups were going on.
00:07 Today is Pakistan's warm-up against Australia.
00:10 Australia has won the toss and decided to bat.
00:14 Pakistan has lost their first warm-up game against New Zealand.
00:19 Australia and Netherlands were not able to win the warm-up game due to rain.
00:24 I have with me our sports correspondent Shahid Hashmi and his program Bouncer's anchor Shoaib Jatt.
00:32 Assalam-o-Alaikum. Welcome to the show.
00:34 Thank you.
00:35 First of all, Shahid, what are you doing here?
00:38 Because you should have been in India by now.
00:41 I was singing a sad song and I was saying, "I don't have a visa, I have come."
00:48 This has never happened before because of your aggredation and your traveling experience.
00:54 We are broadcasters and we are everything.
00:57 There is a letter from the BCCI saying, "Come, we are waiting for you."
01:01 But it has stopped.
01:02 According to me, last week, all the people who were on hold, they have already been cleared.
01:08 But in the chair of the PCB management committee, a statement by Zakha Ashraf set fire to the words that they used.
01:15 "We are our children, we are our enemies."
01:18 Those words created a big uproar.
01:21 The Indian media also threw it.
01:23 And the officials there are saying, "Okay, if this is the case, then we will tell you."
01:27 That's what happened. Otherwise, everyone's visas would have come by last week.
01:30 And by the first or second date, everyone would have flown on their own.
01:34 Okay, what to do? What to do? We are waiting.
01:36 Waiting is difficult.
01:38 But of course, we have to do it until your double roti is not written there.
01:44 Joy, recently you interviewed Mr. Zakha in your program.
01:47 So, you didn't ask him the question that you used a very famous word in cricket, Stephen Smith, "brain freeze".
01:57 Did that happen that you said, "enemy country" in a country where the Pakistan team has already gone.
02:03 And they are also getting a great welcome.
02:05 So, such things don't suit the chairman's mouth.
02:10 Yes, that's exactly how it is. One of his sentences has created a lot of dents.
02:14 The way India highlighted it, manipulated it, they made it a big issue.
02:18 Now, if you look at my interview with Zakha Shroff, the chairman of the committee,
02:23 he is repeatedly calling India a great nation.
02:26 He is saying that he has tried a lot to cover India.
02:28 Then after that statement, a press release was also issued by the Pakistan Cricket Board.
02:32 They say, "The arrow came out of the bow and the word came out."
02:35 The dent that has been made is the same as Shahid Bhai's.
02:40 After that, the Pakistan Cricket Board, if I am not mistaken,
02:42 the media also wrote a letter to our fans, our journalists, to give them visas, to do all the work.
02:49 Now, Shahid Bhai was talking off camera, he was saying that the list is not with the cricket board yet.
02:57 So, if this is the case, then it is very strange.
02:59 It is very strange.
03:00 We spoke to the spokesperson of the Foreign Office yesterday.
03:03 He said that we have a diplomatic style, we do not want to take any fight.
03:07 When Bilawal Bhutto was the Foreign Minister, he gave a very good statement.
03:11 He said that we will not mix politics in sports.
03:14 We will let our team go to the World Cup.
03:16 And immediately we cleared our team, gave a green signal that you can play,
03:20 despite the fact that there were security reservations.
03:23 But now, when the Foreign Office is asking us to give a list of approved people,
03:27 who we can tell that you get their visas quickly,
03:31 it has been three days since the list has not reached the Foreign Office from the PCB.
03:34 Anyway, there are two things in this.
03:36 One is that they are making a complete account of us and taking revenge.
03:41 The second is that we are still seeing carelessness and mismanagement,
03:45 that has been there for this World Cup.
03:47 Schedule is made, changes are made.
03:49 They were not prepared even for their own religious holidays.
03:53 You should know that it is your religious festival, the calendar comes first.
03:56 How many dates have been changed on that?
03:58 And the report that is there now is that the inauguration ceremony has also been approved.
04:03 Mr. Shahid, do you have anything to say about this?
04:05 First of all, many people were saying that there will be a new inauguration ceremony,
04:07 although there are small inaugurations in England too.
04:09 Obviously, small ones are always there.
04:11 India is such a big country, Bollywood is their worldwide identity.
04:14 And they have so many stars that it would be difficult for them to choose
04:17 who should be invited to the inauguration ceremony and who should not.
04:20 Asha Bhosle Sahiba, who is a world's top level singer,
04:24 and Shreya Ghoshal were coming up with the name that they will perform and sing.
04:28 And Ranveer Singh, who is not so much influenced by their anthem,
04:32 He is very bad, you have used a very good word.
04:35 They will also perform in that.
04:37 So all these things should have happened.
04:39 There is a glitch in it.