Former ICC President Ehsan Mani has criticised the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for agreeing to tour India for a short one-day series later this month.
India on Thursday said that although it backed normalisation of relations with Pakistan through restoration of cricketing ties, Islamabad needed to speed up the investigation and trial relating to those involved in the 2008 Mumbai attack.
Congress on Monday had a dig at Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray over his call to "staunch Hindus and patriotic public" to not to allow Indo-Pak cricket matches in India.
Radical Hindu groups on Friday demanded the cancellation of the first Pakistan cricket tour to India in five years and threatened to hold protests against the visiting side.
By CricketCountry Staff Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar clarified this stance on India-Pakistan cricket resumption and stressed that Indian players need to have time between England series during which they are slated to play Pakistan in the proposed series, starting in December.
By CricketCountry Staff
Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar clarified this stance on India-Pakistan cricket resumption and stressed that Indian players need to have time between England series during which they are slated to play Pakistan in the proposed series, starting in December.
Victoria Nuland, spokesperson for the United States Department of State, said on Monday that Americans don't understand cricket, but they like it, particularly of the diplomatic variety between friend India and ally Pakistan.
While Shiv Sena on Monday opposed the resumption of Indo-Pak cricketing ties, Maharashtra Congress also expressed reservations, saying that BCCI should consider "people's sentiments".
Refusing to react to Sunil Gavaskar's criticism of the Indian cricket Board's decision to resume bilateral cricket ties with Pakistan, senior BCCI official Rajeev Shukla on Monday said that the former India captain was entitled to his opinion.