India vs Pakistan

Many cricketers have shared their opinions on the outcomes of World Cup 2019 and former cricketer and West Indian legend Brian Lara feels that India are the favourites to lift the trophy.

During a post-match press conference of PSL match, a reporter asked Shahid Afridi about his views on Indian players wearing camouflage caps.

CoA chairman Vinod Rai, when asked whether India will boycott Pakistan at the World Cup, said to wait till the time come as World Cup is still four months away. India and Pakistan are scheduled to play in the World Cup on June 16.

ICC has conveyed to them that boycotting any country from where terror emanates is not within the domain of the ICC.

As the uncertainty over whether or not India will boycott the World Cup clash against Pakistan is rising among all, Former Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden has revealed his opinion on the matter.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday assured BCCI that all security concerns at the upcoming ODI World Cup, in the wake of Pulwama terror attack, will be addressed adequately.

The BCCI officials are yet to meet the government over the issue whether India should play Pakistan in World Cup group-stage but one of them said after the Balakot operation that if govt wanted the team to stop playing Pakistan in multi-nation events, the board would follow the directive.

Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly feels it will be a tough or nearly impossible task for BCCI to convince the ICC to impose full ban on Pakistan for nurturing terrorists. Ganguly feels that there is less than even a 1 per cent chance of ICC supporting BCCI in its quest of getting Pakistan banned.

ICC will clear India’s ‘doubts’ about security at the upcoming World Cup but the world body is unlikely to even discuss a possible boycott of Pakistan when its CEC meets on Wednesday.

Pakistan’s former military dictator Gen (retd.) Pervez Musharraf has termed talk of any nuclear war with India as rubbish, saying if Pakistan would attack India with one atomic bomb, then New Delhi could “finish us by attacking with 20 bombs”.