{"id":9665,"date":"2009-02-01T16:23:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/02\/01\/pakistan-lose-out-on-champions-trophy\/"},"modified":"2009-02-01T16:23:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T16:23:32","slug":"pakistan-lose-out-on-champions-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/01\/pakistan-lose-out-on-champions-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan lose out on Champions Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Decision is \u2018unfortunate\u2019 for Pakistan, says ICC c<\/h3>\n<div><strong>THE Champions Trophy will not take place in Pakistan, it has been confirmed.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The ICC said \u201ccircumstances completely beyond the control of the PCB\u201d were the factor in its decision. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Originally the tournament was due to take place in September 2008 but was postponed after a number of cricketing nations refused to travel to Pakistan on security grounds. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The news will come as a huge blow to Pakistan who had hoped to use the tournament to dispel fears surrounding the country\u2019s security situation. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It is unfortunate the ICC Champions Trophy will not take place in Pakistan due to circumstances completely beyond the control of the PCB,&#8221; Haroon Lorgat, the ICC chief executive, said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He added Pakistan will however retain the revenue due for hosting the tournament. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The ICC also offered to form a task team to visit Pakistan and work with the PCB &#8220;to find ways to ensure that, wherever possible, international cricket is played in the country in the future&#8221;.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Former Pakistan captain and commentator Ramiz Raja, however, was disappointed with the decision to shift the tournament. &#8220;I think Pakistan has done enough to tell the world that cricket is not targeted in the country,&#8221; he told AFP. &#8220;While the PCB wanted to host the Champions Trophy, they insisted to host Australia on a neutral venue in April. That must have confused the decision-makers.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision is \u2018unfortunate\u2019 for Pakistan, says ICC c THE Champions Trophy will not take place in Pakistan, it has been confirmed. &#13; The ICC said \u201ccircumstances completely beyond the control of the PCB\u201d were the factor in its decision. &#13; Originally the tournament was due to take place in September 2008 but was postponed after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}