Where will India-Pakistan matches be played? Confusion increased regarding World Cup and Asia Cup 2023

The Asia Cup 2023 will be played before the ODI World Cup to be held in India later this year. This time the Asia Cup has been hosted by Pakistan and India does not want to go there due to security reasons along with political issues. In such a situation, it was said that in this tournament, India will play all its matches in some other country outside Pakistan. But after this demand of India, now Pakistan has also refused to play World Cup matches in India.

Pakistan is demanding that their World Cup matches should also be held in Bangladesh as they do not want to go to India for this ICC tournament. However, ICC officials have made it clear that there was no discussion on this in the recent meeting and the upcoming World Cup will be held in India in October-November only. In such a situation, the question arises that which city can host India vs Pakistan mega-match.

The report said that Pakistan is doing this because the Indian team has refused to go to Pakistan for the Asia Cup. A source in the ICC board told PTI that no such discussion has taken place officially that the Pakistan team will play its matches in Bangladesh. As far as the visa is concerned, the BCCI has already made it clear that players from any country including Pakistan will not have any visa issues. Bangladesh is not the venue for Pakistan in ICC's plan.

BCCI is planning to organize 48 matches of the upcoming World Cup 2023 in 12 cities. In such a situation, every city will get 4-4 matches. While the final match of the tournament will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai is likely to get a semi-final match. At the same time, the discussion is going on in which city the second semi-final will be held.