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More India-Pakistan games on horizon as Asia Cup gets Sept window

Friday, 28 February 2025



India and Pakistan could be up for potentially three more clashes later in the year, possibly in the UAE again as the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has tentatively scheduled the Asia Cup for September, reports Cricbuzz.
The continental tournament, set to be played in the T20 format this time around, will feature as many as 19 games and is expected to run between the second and fourth week of September.
The tournament was originally allotted to India, but given the India-Pakistan dynamics, the ACC has decided that it will be conducted in a neutral country. The venue has not been finalised, but ACC officials are believed to be vacillating between Sri Lanka and the UAE. BCCI will remain the designated hosts.
A key recent decision of the ACC was that the tournament be be held in a neutral country when it is the turn of either the BCCI or the PCB to stage it.
This decision, understandably, is to avoid any controversy about the India and Pakistan teams not wanting to travel to each other's countries - something that was witnessed during the ongoing Champions Trophy.