India might play Pakistan if PCB wins compensation case against BCCI

In a recent development, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is ready to accept any ruling of the International Cricket Council Disputes Resolution Committee after BCCI did not honour a MoU. However, irrespective of the verdict, the PCB wants Indo-Pak bilateral series to be added to the Future Tours Programme for 2019-2023 if it wins the case.

PCB chief, Najam Sethi who returned home after attending several meetings of the ICC Executive Board and other committees in Kolkata, told the media that Pakistan had signed the FTP documents conditionally. Sethi said he had signed the documents on the condition that if the ICC committee ruled in PCB’s favour, matches against India would be added to the FTP.

According to Indian Express, the PCB chief said, “We have made it clear that if the ICC’s Disputes Resolution Committee rules in our favour in October, then India must play against us in the new FTP programme.”

He added, “Even if the result is otherwise we still have got confirmed around 123 matches in the new FTP so we have done well,” he said.

Although the ICC has given a final shape to the FTP at the meeting in Kolkata, the current schedule does not include any Pakistan and India bilateral matches.

PCB demands USD 70 million as compensation

PCB filed the compensation case with the ICC, saying that the BCCI has not honoured a MoU signed in 2014. The ICC has said its Disputes Resolution Committee will arrive at a verdict on the compensation claim of around USD 70 million by Pakistan after a four-day meet in Dubai in October. Sethi has also exuded confidence that Pakistan has strong chances to win the compensation case.

On the other hand, the BCCI cleared any ambiguity stating that the MoU is not a legally binding document and was conditional to Pakistan supporting the Big Three Governance system which has been dissolved now and that they had said they needed government clearance to play against Pakistan.

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