{"id":499,"date":"2023-09-16T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T13:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=499"},"modified":"2023-09-16T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T13:14:00","slug":"border-tensions-stall-india-pak-cricket-match-indian-sports-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Border Tensions Stall India-Pak Cricket Match: Indian Sports Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-9.jpg 684w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-9-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The News: <em>Anurag Thakur claims BCCI reached a decision regarding matches between neighboring nations a long time ago.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A series between Pakistan and India won&#8217;t be possible until the border disputes between the two neighbors are resolved, according to Indian Sports Minister Anurag Thakur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to diplomatic tensions between the two nations, cricketing relations between India and Pakistan have been on hold for years. As a result, only international cricket grounds are used for the teams&#8217; encounters in ICC and Asia Cup matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Thakur, stated in an interview with the Indian media that &#8220;the BCCI had long ago decided that bilateral matches with Pakistan will not happen until border relations are normalized.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realize that every regular citizen of the nation feels this way, he remarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be mentioned that Pakistan recently lost the second match against India in the Asia Cup by 228 runs. The national team&#8217;s hopes of making it to the finals were dashed on Thursday during a pivotal and exciting final over after the Green Shirts lost to Sri Lanka later in the same competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, India has moved ahead of Pakistan in the ICC ODI team rankings as a result of their outstanding performance in One Day Internationals (ODIs). The Blues have moved up to number two, while Pakistan, who was previously ranked first, has dropped to third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan is in third place with 115 ratings and 3,102 points, while India is placed second with 116 ratings and 4,516 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, on September 17 in Colombo, India and Sri Lanka will now play in the Asia Cup 2023 championship game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The News: Anurag Thakur claims BCCI reached a decision regarding matches between neighboring nations a long time ago. A series between Pakistan and India won&#8217;t be possible until the border&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}