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The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to sue Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as the Indian board has failed to honour its commitment and play a bilateral series in Pakistan, said PCB Executive Committee Chairman Najam Sethi in a tweet.
The agreement between the two boards was signed in 2014. The series was one of six agreed between the PCB and BCCI under a Memorandum of Understanding signed when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-led government gave its go-ahead for the series.
Sethi in another tweet, said that India has lost and the International Cricket Council (ICC) has decided to roll back the Big 3 system.
Chairman International Cricket Council (ICC) Task Force on Pakistan Giles Clarke has reviewed the security report off ICC experts and has agreed to hold three T20 matches in Pakistan.
Sethi made the revelation in a tweet and added the matches are scheduled for end of September 2017. A team of ICC's "top current players" will play the matches, added Sethi.
Pakistan and India have not played a full series against each other since 2007, though Pakistan toured India for a short series in December 2012.
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Apr 26, 2017 08:51pm
Good decision by PCB, only if it does indeed follow up on this sue! Although, the BCCI should have been sued by PCB some 2 years back.
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Apr 26, 2017 08:59pm
Who wants to play India? Sethi is not thinking right. Leave Indians alone. Sethi must understand that current Indian government will not allow anything which is anyway beneficial to Pakistan or its people. Forget India and concentrate on improving our domestic cricket structure.
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Apr 26, 2017 09:06pm
Suing for failing to implement an MoU ? Never heard that, but there is always a first time !!
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Apr 26, 2017 09:12pm
@NORISK - "Suing for failing to implement an MoU ? Never heard that, but there is always a first time !!"
Well, we will find out that won't we.
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Apr 26, 2017 09:13pm
No use of suing for MOU. It is not a contract, just an understanding between two parties not an agreement. Even big businesses sign MOU before actually signing an agreement. No court will give a decision in favor of PCB.
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Apr 26, 2017 09:14pm
Another marvelous way to waste PCBs time, energy and money. Well done, Sethi Saab, let's focus on these court cases while the players keep getting thrashed by others in the cricket field.
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Apr 26, 2017 09:17pm
@AXH only if you know what MoU means and conditions involved in it.
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Apr 26, 2017 09:18pm
@AXH guess you can't even read writing on the wall, can you ?
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Apr 26, 2017 09:19pm
@AXH know the meaning of MoU first and then try to find whatever you want.
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Apr 26, 2017 09:28pm
Mr.Sethi...it's not easy to Sue BCCI...it's just a MOU and not a binding contract. Instead focus on building Pakistan Team and the removing politics in the Team. Provide infrastructure to local bodies and focus on improving Domestic cricket. It's a sheer waste of time Suing BCCI..every one knows it's just a eye wash. As long as India Pakistan improve the relations we cannot see cricket happening between 2 countries...lets accept it and move on.
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Apr 26, 2017 09:34pm
I've been listening to this for a long time, but he hasn't done anything. He just wants publicity.
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Apr 26, 2017 09:36pm
India has never fulfilled any committment to Pakistan,they don't respect any agreement.
Pakistan should take stand.
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Apr 26, 2017 09:37pm
@Aleem
Agreed,but who will make Sethi & co.understand?
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Apr 26, 2017 09:41pm
Which agreement India has honoured with Pakistan so far?
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Apr 26, 2017 09:44pm
Just empty threats knowing that BCCI is currently at its weakest point
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Apr 26, 2017 09:49pm
@NORISK It says bilateral agreement
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Apr 26, 2017 09:54pm
All rosy words for the locals, tell me when PCB actually gets any compensation.
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Apr 26, 2017 10:00pm
Nothing will happen but glad that such a step has taken place.
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Apr 26, 2017 10:00pm
I would like to say that Indian Cricket Team should withdraw themselves from Champions Trophy. See how the champions trophy will go to the biggest failure as happened when in 2007 World Cup. ICC will afterwards will lick boots Of BCCI. It is clear that PCB is beggar because it itself is poor board and goes after begging BCCI to play with them.Now Pakistani people will teach me and give me explanations,but I would like to tell them it is not about kashmir Issue that we are not playing but for Mumbai 26/11,Pathankot air base,Uri attacks. And if happens that in any case BCCI allows players to play with Pakistan, indian Cricket Team will never play with them.
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Apr 26, 2017 10:03pm
@azmat shah then why take so much time to sue? PCB is all talks and nothing.
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Apr 26, 2017 10:18pm
Talk later but first DO it please.... Zubani talks bohat ho chuka abb kar dekhanay waqt hai. We have already lost too much...
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Apr 26, 2017 10:29pm
@Indi rocks, @GAUR,
Why are you being so impatient. Let's see what happens if PCB does go ahead with suing the BCCI. We will find out then what an MoU is and how it is implemented, won't we.
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Apr 26, 2017 11:11pm
BCCI annual revenue is roughly as much as Pakistans GDP. I wonder what PCB can do.
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Apr 26, 2017 11:12pm
@AXH - Correct.
Chances are they will end up settling out of court.
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Apr 26, 2017 11:58pm
Get ready for another loss.
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Apr 27, 2017 12:37am
2014 Mou ??? Mr.Sethi wants to sue after 3 years....
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Apr 27, 2017 12:54am
@Harmony-1© first tell me in which court will PCB pursue the case ?
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Apr 27, 2017 12:55am
@Harmony-1© hoping against the hope, eh ?
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Apr 27, 2017 01:38am
Please do sue and then see the results and be ready to pay lawyers hefty fees of both PCB and BCCI. This will be good lesson to understand meaning of MOU.
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Apr 27, 2017 01:39am
Right direction, Indian cricket board should be made to pay losses suffered by PCB due to not fulfilling the promise made by India to play matches with Pakistan.
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Apr 27, 2017 01:41am
@NORISK: Don't worry many such things coming India's way., Modi should be held responsible for such arrogant attitude.
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Apr 27, 2017 01:58am
PCB should not go ahead to act in haste. Always diplomacy is the best way to handle such issues. Millions of Cricket lovers from India and Pakistan are eagerly waiting to see resumption of cricket ties between the two countries. As a result of the recent set back India may revise her policy in dealing with Pakistan. If this happens, it will benefit both countries.
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Apr 27, 2017 02:35am
A MoU is not a contract.
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Apr 27, 2017 03:03am
This is a farce. The PCB officers are playing these stunt periodically to justify their hold on the organization. If Sethi is really intent to put his rhetoric in action, he should get some legal advice from a learned international legal person(s), rather than waste time and scarce PCB resources in adventurisms.
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Apr 27, 2017 03:46am
@salim : really!!! BCCI revenue is USD 300 billion per annum? Are you even serious. Please stop making things up and come in the real world.
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Apr 27, 2017 03:49am
@Utsav ..Superb comment bro..You nailed it..best comment ..
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Apr 27, 2017 04:04am
@salim Not any more. BCCI lost today!
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Apr 27, 2017 06:31am
PCB should focus their energy on right things. BCCI is a powerful institution and if you think you can sue for just an MOU, then I'm sorry for sethi sab's useless attempts...Dont forget a fact that you have literally pleaded BCCI for money so many times. Now, from where you get anger?
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Apr 27, 2017 07:19am
Again! How many times do Sethi, Khan and PCB has to threaten to sue BCCI before they actually do it.
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Apr 27, 2017 09:00am
@Abdulla Hussain Modi is beyond your league mate.
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Apr 27, 2017 09:01am
@Abdulla Hussain imaginary losses suffered by incompetent board.
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Apr 27, 2017 10:01am
Forget about cricket match India even refused to grant visas to squash players of Pakistan!!!
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Apr 27, 2017 10:02am
@salim so how much they spend out of pak GDP amount of BCCI on poors that travel in a train like honey bees stuck on its body? Think they must not be.
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Apr 27, 2017 12:07pm
Sue where? In International Court of Justice, Netherlands?
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Apr 27, 2017 03:01pm
@Utsav . Love your comments. You said it all.
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Apr 28, 2017 03:40am
India has mixed sports and art with politics so Pakistan must just stop begging to play India on Indian terms. For unknown time frame.
Big applause for all the Cricket Bodies who finally understood the receiving end of Big 3 and out voted it to preserve Cricket.
Celebrating Indepedence Day on April 27 th from Indian occupation of ICC would be a great event.
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