Former England captain Michael Atherton has demanded to completely close the cricket match between India and Pakistan. He says that there should not be a match between India and Pakistan in the ICC tournament. He also cited the 2025 Asia Cup for this, in which there was a lot of controversy in the cricket match between the two countries.

In the column written for ‘The Times’, Atherton cited the recently ‘uproar’ in the Asia Cup, where the Indian team refused to join hands with the Pakistani players and took away the Pakistani head of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Mohsin Naqvi winning trophy, as Indians refused to take the trophy.

Atherton said, “India and Pakistan have been clashed with each other in the group phase of every ICC tournament since 2013, including three 50-over World Cup, Five T20 World Cup and three Champions Trophy. It does not matter whether the early phase has been single round robin- which is a reason for India vs. Pakistan. Went.”

Atherton wrote in London’s ‘The Times’, this is a match between the two countries due to low matches (perhaps partially its deficiency), which has a lot of economic influence. This is one of the main reasons that the broadcast rights of ICC tournaments are so precious. The most recent rights for about three billion dollars for the 2023–27 cycle. The frequency and importance of ICC competitions has increased due to the relatively decline in the importance of bilateral bilateral matches and hence the match between India and Pakistan is also important for countries which have no importance in sports otherwise.

Atherton said that the time has now come to abolish the ‘strategically supported system’ to ensure at least once in ICC competitions between the two rivals. The draw and program in the recent Asia Cup was such that in this three-week tournament, both teams will be face to face every Sunday.

He said, “If cricket was once a source of diplomacy, then it has now become a medium of widespread stress and propaganda. It is not appropriate to organize a tournament match according to your economic needs for any serious game and now that this rivalry is being benefited in other ways, its justification is even less.

Wi vs eng test match canceled at day 1: A Test match was played between England and West Indies in 1998, which was canceled on the first day. The biggest reason for the cancellation of this match was the pitch, on which this Test match was being played between the two teams. The pitch of this ground was so bad that it became very difficult for any batsman to bat on it.

Dangerous pitch of Sabina Park

The first incident in cricket history when the England team went on a tour of West Indies. Test matches were to be played between these two teams at the Sabina Park Cricket Stadium in Jamaica. In the first match of this series, England captain Michael Atherton won the toss and decided to bat first and asked the West Indies captained by Brine Lara to bowl.

England won the toss expensive

England won the toss and made the decision thoughtfully, but batting first became very expensive to the players of this team. The pitch report of this ground of Sabina Park was saying that this pitch could be quite dangerous during the last innings, due to which England thought more right to bat in the first and third innings. But this match went on in such a way that even England’s first innings could not end.

The result came out without playing the match

When the England team came out to bat, it was impossible for the English players to withstand the balls of West Indies bowler Katli Ambros and Katni Walsh. In the game of some time of this match, England players suffered many injuries. After this, when England scored 3 wickets for 17 runs, the match was stopped and the result was removed that the match could not be played on this dangerous pitch, so that the first Test match of this series was drawn without playing without full.

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