Certainly, India should snap all bilateral cricketing, sports and cultural ties with Pakistan following Islamabad’s continued and shameless support and encouragement of Pakistan-based terrorist groupings which regularly attack India, the hottest instance being the February 14 suicide-car-bomb blasting of a busload of Main Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel with Pulwama, in which 40 policemen perished.
However, the June 16 World Cup match at Old Trafford, Machester, within England is not part of a new bilateral series which India and Pakistan have scheduled to play. The World Cup match is part of the tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for which the Native indian team has been preparing for the last four years and which Indian native fans have been eagerly looking frontward to.
If the Indian government determines that India should not play the World Cup match against Pakistan, it is India which will suffer whilst Pakistan benefits by being awarded the particular game without even stepping on in order to the field. India’s forfeiting the fit will make the 1992 World-Cup receiving cricketer-turned Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan happy, and his generals and terrorist groups will all be delighted.
The last ODI World Cup held in England was in the summer associated with 1999. India played and beat Pakistan in a 1999 World Cup complement on June 8 at Old Trafford, Manchester, even while the Kargil turmoil was going on and in which in turn hundreds of Indian troops died even though evicting Pakistani soldiers who had recently been ordered by General Musharraf to take off their uniforms and infiltrate in the guise of militants while occupying positions on the mountain-tops on India’s side of the Line of Control (LoC) with the objective of threatening the nationwide highway linking Srinagar with Leh in addition to the rest of the country.
Inside 1999, India first won the Entire world Cup match against Pakistan and subsequently the Kargil conflict. History can do itself.
Granted, the ICC anticipates scheduling India-Pakistan matches in its World Cup and other tournaments since that generates the maximum amount of revenue.
What the BCCI should make clear at the next ICC meeting at China on February 27 is that it is no longer in favour of such Indo-Pak matches and that revenues are secondary when compared with our national honour and the loss of lives of our soldiers and Only Indian cricketers policemen due to the attacks by terrorist groups based in Pakistan and encouraged by the Pakistan Army’s Inter Program Intelligence (ISI) group.
That would turn out to be the right and principled stand to be able to take. Forfeiting the ICC World Pot match scheduled years ago and which in turn we have made a commitment in order to play will only hurt Indian cricket players and fans, and benefit Pakistan.
Just what Pak prime minister Imran Khan provides proved by refusing to condemn or take any action against the Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad which has openly claimed responsibility for the Pulwama suicide-car-bombing is that the 1992 World Cup winning captain is no longer some sort of sportsman but just another pliable candidate who will do anything to remain in power even if it indicates selling his soul to the PakisCan army’s ISI.
And so what when Imran Khan has also proved that you can fool some of the people continuously, especially former Indian crickinfo player turned minister Navjot Singh Sidhu.