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The crippled betwixt Pakistan and UAE has been delayed by an hr (Photo by Francois Nel/Getty Images)
The Asia Cup fixture betwixt Pakistan and the UAE successful Dubai was thrown into uncertainty connected Wednesday evening, with the commencement delayed by an hr and beardown indications that Pakistan could forfeit the match. The contention arose from Pakistan’s objection to Andy Pycroft continuing arsenic lucifer referee. The ICC had earlier looked into the substance and cleared Pycroft of immoderate misconduct, ruling that “appointment of lucifer officials is simply a centralised ICC determination and it can't beryllium influenced by considerations of immoderate subordinate board.”
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As per reports, Pycroft was contiguous astatine the stadium earlier aboriginal leaving for the ICC headquarters. Meanwhile, the Pakistan squad was stopped from travelling to the crushed contempt their kit bags already being loaded onto the bus.
The UAE side, however, had reached the venue connected schedule.More recently, ACC President and PCB president Mohsin Naqvi has tweeted connected X that the Pakistan broadside has been asked to depart for the Dubai Cricket stadium.As per latest updates, the UAE-Pakistan lucifer volition commence astatine 7:30PM section clip (9:00PM IST). The flip is acceptable to instrumentality spot astatine 7:00PM section clip (8:30PM IST) There were besides reports that elder figures Ramiz Raja and Najam Sethi had been called to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) bureau successful Lahore, wherever PCB president Mohsin Naqvi is expected to code the media.
Preparations for a property league were underway aboriginal successful the evening. The ICC has maintained that Pycroft acted appropriately, noting helium “did not breach immoderate lucifer protocols; successful fact, helium helped forestall imaginable embarrassment for some captains by informing them that the organisers had decided to skip the handshake astatine the toss.”
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Should the ICC reconsider the assignment of lucifer officials based connected subordinate committee objections?
With uncertainty inactive successful the air, determination is yet to beryllium an authoritative connection from the PCB.
