Fans are angry about the India-Pakistan match to be held on 14 September in the Asia Cup 2025. Meanwhile, former Pakistan batsman Basit Ali has also given a big statement about this great -time. He says that another joke will be on 14 September.
Let us know that the upcoming Asia Cup 2025 will be the tournament of eight countries, which is an important preparation event for the upcoming T20 World Cup next year. The tournament will start from 9 September in which the defending champion India will play the UAE in Dubai on 10 September.
India and Pakistan have been kept in Group A for this event and the match between these two countries is going to be held on 14 September. Before this big match, Basit Ali has expressed displeasure over the recent decisions of PCB.
A few days ago, PCB has demoted them in Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan’s Central Contract. Both the players were earlier in A Katgi, but now they have been put in the B category. Apart from Babur and Rizwan, the rest of the players like Abrar Ahmed, Fakhar Zaman, Harris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Salman Ali Aga, Shadab Khan and Shaheen Shah Afridi have also been put in B category.
Apart from this, Pakistan has demoted Test captain Shaan Masood in D category from B Katgi after being on the ICC rankings. Fast bowler Nasim Shah has also been excluded in the UAE for the upcoming T20 tournament and has been put in the third category of contracts.
At the same time, Basit Ali has expressed his unhappiness over these decisions of PCB and has raised questions about the decisions of Pakistan Cricket Board. Basit called this decision of PCB, which is of Central Contract as a joke. He said on Kamran Akmal’s YouTube show game time that, there will be a joke now, when the name of India will be Pakistan on 14 September. There will be another joke.