Pakistan team denied visas to travel to India for T20 World Cup for the Blind

Pakistan’s cricket staff has been denied visas to travel to India for the ongoing T20 Planet Cup for the Blind. In a assertion issued on Tuesday, the Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC) explained that the group could not get clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs in India.

“This regrettable incident has still left the Pakistan blind cricket group in the lurch,” the PBCC stated. “It was highly very likely that Pakistan and India would have locked horns in the remaining of ongoing Planet Cup and thinking about the current sort of the Environmentally friendly Shirts, Pakistan had large prospects to get the World Cup.”

The PBCC stated “it strongly condemns this discriminating act of India as sports ought to be previously mentioned regional politics”.

“Our counterpart in India pleaded with their federal government for Pakistan’s clearance but almost nothing was listened to,” the statement claimed. “This discriminating act will have significant penalties on international blind cricket as we at the Entire world Blind Cricket will choose stern motion versus them and may possibly not allow for India to host foreseeable future global gatherings.”

“Indian crew incredibly, quite unhappy they are not coming”
Mahantesh GK, the president of Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI), informed ESPNcricinfo that the hosts ended up “very, extremely dissatisfied” about the Pakistan staff not earning it to the event. “I read from our colleagues from Pakistan that they didn’t couldn’t get the visas they experienced been given this afternoon a connect with from the Indian Significant Fee indicating that they would not be able to course of action the visas,” Mahantesh said. “It is extremely, pretty unlucky for the reason that yesterday we experienced the inauguration [of the tournament]. Pakistan are just one of the most effective teams and we had been eager to participate in with them. The Indian staff is really, quite disappointed that they are not coming.”

Mahantesh mentioned CABI experienced approached the concerned ministries in the Indian federal government – the Ministry of External Affairs, and the Ministry of House Affairs – relating to facilitating the visas.

CABI had been optimistic about the Pakistan group travelling to India for the Globe Cup, Mahantesh reported, due to the fact they had performed it India in 2012 and 2017. “But these days when I listened to Pakistan team had not received the clearance, it was a little bit surprising.”

CABI will launch an current timetable for the match. Pakistan ended up originally scheduled to enjoy versus India on Wednesday and the sport could still be rescheduled to December 9 or December 11, subject matter to visa clearance.

Aside from India, the remaining taking part groups are Bangladesh, Australia, Sri Lanka, Nepal and South Africa. Pakistan experienced concluded 2nd in the past T20 Globe Cup for the Blind. The latest event is remaining played from December 5 to 17, in Faridabad, Delhi, Mumbai, Indore and Bengaluru, wherever the final will be held.

Edited PTI duplicate, with extra reporting by ESPNcricinfo.