Pakistan to boycott T20 World Cup match against India on February 15

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Pakistan volition forfeit 2 points if they don’t instrumentality the tract for their crippled against India successful Colombo.

Pakistan’s cricket squad has been cleared to enactment successful the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 but volition not play its crippled against India, the authorities of Pakistan said successful a statement.

“The Pakistan cricket squad shall not instrumentality the tract successful the lucifer scheduled connected 15th February 2026 against India,” the connection said connected Sunday.

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The connection did not notation wherefore Pakistan would not play its radical lucifer against India.

Pakistan’s information successful the tourney was thrown into uncertainty aft Bangladesh were ousted by the International Cricket Council (ICC) implicit a logistical deadlock.

The ICC kicked Bangladesh retired of the World Cup and replaced them with Scotland due to the fact that of an impasse implicit information concerns that  the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) had raised astir playing successful India.

The Pakistan Cricket Board swiftly threw its value down Bangladesh and said it volition not marque a “final decision” connected its team’s information until adjacent week.

PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi met Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif past week to sermon the contented but did not clarify whether Pakistan would question to the tournament, which begins connected February 7.

“It was agreed that the last determination volition beryllium taken either connected Friday oregon adjacent Monday,” Naqvi, who is besides Pakistan’s interior minister, said.

All of Pakistan’s World Cup matches person been scheduled successful Sri Lanka due to the fact that of the fraught relations betwixt New Delhi and Islamabad.

Following Bangladesh’s expulsion, the ICC was accused of practising “double standards” successful its bonzer determination to oust a afloat subordinate federation connected the ground of a logistical deadlock.

“You can’t person treble standards,” Naqvi said.

“You can’t accidental for 1 state [India] they tin bash immoderate they privation and for the others to person to bash the implicit opposite. That’s wherefore we’ve taken this basal and made wide Bangladesh person had an injustice done to them. They should play successful the World Cup. They are a large stakeholder successful cricket.”

The T20 World Cup, co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka, features 20 nations and begins connected Saturday.

Pakistan are drawn successful Group A on with India, Namibia, Netherlands and US, and are playing each their matches successful Sri Lanka. Pakistan’s archetypal lucifer connected Saturday is against Netherlands astatine the Sinhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground successful the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.

If Pakistan boycott their lucifer against India, they volition forfeit 2 points.