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PCB issues blanket ban on Pakistan's participation in WCL
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has issued a blanket ban on future participation in the World Championship of Legends (WCL). The move comes after the India Champions team withdrew from two matches against Pakistan Champions, including the group stage and the semi‑final, citing political sensitivities, and the tournament organisers nonetheless handed India points for both forfeitures. The Pakistan Cricket Board also hit out at the tournament organisers for being “biased”.
“The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announces that it is issuing a blanket ban from future participation in the World Championship of Legends (WCL),” the PCB said in a statement.
“The PCB, during its 79th BoG meeting held virtually under the chairmanship of Mohsin Naqvi reviewed with considerable disappointment WCL’s appalling conduct of awarding points to a willfully forfeiting team, and the content of the press releases of the WCL announcing the cancellation of the scheduled India vs Pakistan legends matches, which were tainted with hypocrisy and bias,” said the PCB in its statement.
The board also slammed WCL for the statements following India's withdrawal.
"The WCL's apology for 'hurting the sentiments', whilst being farcical, inadvertently acknowledges that the cancellation was not based on cricketing merit, but rather on succumbing to a specific nationalistic narrative," the statement further said. "This bias, masquerading as sensitivity, sends an unacceptable message to the international sporting community."
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