PCB's senior officials will travel to Singapore to take part in an Asian Cricket Council meeting, hoping to get some confirmation from the BCCI on resumption of bilateral series between the two countries.
Ranbir Singh Mahendra said the BCCI was negotiating the game with the Asian Cricket Council and the ICC.
Due to multiplying cases of COVID-19, Sri Lankan government has put a 10-day ban on international air travel.
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The sound of leather against willow will be heard for the first time at an Asian Games next year after the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) announced that cricket had been added to the programme on Wednesday.
The BCCI chief was made the ACC president-designate after Dalmiya stepped down after the recent BCCI elections.
Eden Gardens is the likely venue for next month's return game between a World team and an Asia XI to raise funds for victims of the south Asian tsunami disaster.
Pakistan officials will meet Sri Lankan counterparts this week in a bid to save next month's tour after the sacking of Sri Lanka's interim cricket board. Pakistan hope to convince Sri Lanka in talks at the Asian Cricket Council meeting in Kuala Lumpur to proceed with the tour amid concerns it will be scrapped by the new administrators.
Seventy two years ago, a newly independent India ventured to hold the the first Asian Games in Delhi with meager resources.
Bangladesh might not feature in the Asia Cup one-day tournament planned next year in Malaysia due to prior international commitments.
The Asian Cricket Council rejected a complaint from Bangladesh that Pakistani pacer Aizaz Cheema deliberately blocked their batsman, Mahmudullah Riyad, in the last over during the tense chase in the Asia Cup final.
The second match between the Rest of the World XI and Asian XI was called off due to the heat and humidity in April.
Pakistan will host the Asia Cup cricket tournament from June 25 in Karachi and Lahore, it was decided at a meeting between Cricket Board Chairman Nasim Ashraf and Asian Cricket Council (ACC) officials in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.
In the absence of bilateral series, both teams have only met in ICC and Asian Cricket Council multilateral events, most recently in the Asia Cup held in the UAE last September.
Controversial Pakistani pace duo of Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif will be under the spotlight in the Asia Cup starting Tuesday in Sri Lanka after the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has decided to conduct random dope tests during the four-nation tournament.
The next year's Asia Cup T20 tournament will be held in Bangladesh in February with India hosting the 2018 edition of the marquee event, said Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Anurag Thakur.
'In the women's landscape, there are fewer years to correct.'
The Asian Cricket Council said it scrapped the Afro-Asia Cup telecast deal with Nimbus because it did not fulfill contractual obligations.
Nimbus, which bagged the television rights for the inter-continental event from the Asian Cricket Council, said the relevant terms of the contract do not apply anymore since the matches were originally scheduled for last year.
Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq said that questions will be raised if Indian Premier League is slotted in the window allotted to ICC T20 World Cup in Australia, which in all likelihood will be cancelled in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. The ICC is yet to decide the fate of the T20 World Cup in Australia which is scheduled to take place from October 18 to November 15.
BCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya said there is nothing new about it as Pakistan are not staging the tournament.
India have won the Asia Cup on seven occasions, Sri Lanka on five occasions, with Pakistan winning it twice.
The former India stumper will prepare the team for the June 12-22 Asian Cricket Council Trophy in Malaysia.
Sri Lanka captain will lead the Asian team in a three-match ODI series for the Afro-Asian Cup.
The next edition of the Asia Cup One-day tournament is likely to be held next year.
Often criticised for not being able to make cricket a global sport, the ICC has pinned its hopes on South Asian migrants in Germany and USA to expand the game's footprint in the untapped markets of Europe and Americas.
Kolkata will host the charity match on February 13.
Fired four years ago following allegations of match-fixing, Ejaz Ahmed junior has been controversially appointed head coach of the Pakistan squad for the Asian Emerging Nations Cup, to be held in Karachi and Colombo in December.
PCB acting chairman Zaka Ashraf will push for the country's ODI World Cup matches at neutral venues at the ICC meetings in Durban this week.
The BCCI president replaces Bangladesh Cricket Board president Mohammed Ali Asghar, whose two-year term ended.\n\n
New BCCI president Ranbir Singh Mahendra is busy with electioneering in Haryana.
The Pakistan Cricket Board on Tuesday said it wants the upcoming Under-19 Asia Cup to be moved out of India to a neutral venue due to security concerns.
'Certainly, Pakistan should be playing in the World Cup, even in India.'
ACC president Jay Shah attributed the body's decision to host Asia Cup matches in Sri Lanka on teams' reluctance to play ODIs in the UAE heat.
Contradicting reports have emerged about the ACC suggesting postponing the Asia Cup with India unable to travel.
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With all the big four Asian sides having packed schedules until the end of the year, finding a window for the tournament this year would have been extremely difficult.
Pakistan Cricket Board chief Ramiz Raja says the PCB can 'collapse' if India wants as 90 per cent of the ICC's funding comes from that country, which effectively means that the sport is being run by 'India's business houses'.
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Najam Sethi is exploring all options as far as this year's Asia Cup in Pakistan and ODI World Cup in India are concerned, saying it's time to "take a clear position".
India has been grouped with hosts Pakistan for the Asia Cup to be held in June and July this year.
