{"id":9791,"date":"2009-11-05T12:51:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T12:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/11\/05\/bcci-india-have-no-time-for-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T12:51:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T12:51:57","slug":"bcci-india-have-no-time-for-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/05\/bcci-india-have-no-time-for-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"BCCI: India have no time for Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Indian cricket chiefs refuse series with rival neighbours <\/h3>\n<div><strong>THE Board of Control for Cricket in India has ruled out a resumption of cricketing ties with Pakistan due to a packed calendar.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>India were due to tour Pakistan in January this year, but that tour was cancelled following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last November.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Political and diplomatic ties between the countries plummeted following those attacks and the BCCI has repeatedly said a series with Pakistan would only be possible if the Indian government give their permission.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt is currently in India in an effort to resume cricketing ties, but BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla said India have no space in the calendar.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cPCB chairman Ijaz Butt met with the BCCI president Shashank Manohar in Mohali and held talks on India-Pakistan cricket,\u201d Shukla said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe BCCI has explained to the PCB chairman that India already have a busy international schedule and there is no space in the calendar for a bilateral series against Pakistan for the next few months.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Immediately after the current one-day international series against Australia, India host Sri Lanka for a Test and limited-over series.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>South Africa are due to tour early next year, while the Indian Premier League and ICC World Twenty20 in the Caribbean are scheduled thereafter.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Shukla said the two boards would resume discussions again later next year. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cHowever, a bilateral series would depend on how relations between the two countries are at that point in time,\u201d Shukla said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cHopefully, the relations are cordial and peaceful and government will give us permission.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cFor now there is no possibility of playing against Pakistan.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian cricket chiefs refuse series with rival neighbours THE Board of Control for Cricket in India has ruled out a resumption of cricketing ties with Pakistan due to a packed calendar. &#13; India were due to tour Pakistan in January this year, but that tour was cancelled following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last November. [&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-9791","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\/9791","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=9791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791\/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=9791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}