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Pakistan foreign office 'evaluating all aspects' of World Cup participation in India

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Pakistan have not toured India since the 2016 World Cup — AFP

Pakistan's foreign ministry has stated that it is "evaluating all aspects" of the Men in Green’s participation in the ICC World Cup in India this year.

Pakistan have not toured India since the 2016 World Cup and over the past few years the two countries have only faced each other in ICC and ACC events.

Meanwhile, India have not toured Pakistan since 2008 and the last bilateral series between the arch-rivals took place in 2012, when Pakistan visited India for limited-overs matches.

Pakistan's Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari was among the foreign ministers who travelled to India's Goa last month for a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting, becoming the first senior Pakistani leader to visit India in nine years.

Foreign ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said Pakistan was of the view that "politics should not be mixed with sports".

"India's policy of not playing cricket in Pakistan is disappointing," Baloch said in Islamabad on Thursday.

"We are observing and evaluating all aspects relating to our participation in the World Cup including the security situation for Pakistani cricketers and we will offer our views to PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) in due course."

Doubts over Pakistan's participation has meant that the dates and venues for the Cricket World Cup are yet to be confirmed with just over three months left before the start of the tournament.

The PCB has also requested the International Cricket Council (ICC) to change the venue of their matches against Australia and Afghanistan during the upcoming World Cup.

According to a report by ESPNcricinfo, Pakistan has asked ICC to swap venues of the aforementioned matches since it would make them “favourites”. The tentative schedule has them playing Australia in Bengaluru and Afghanistan in Chennai.

Usually, venues at ICC events are only changed when there is a security threat.

"Australia in Bengaluru and Afghanistan in Chennai are the two which we should look to get changed as much as possible," the PCB's internal note said. "Ideally, we can switch these around. Australia in Chennai and Afghanistan in Bengaluru would make us obvious favourites in both matches."

It must be noted that India has already ruled out travelling to Pakistan for the Asia Cup, which is scheduled to begin on August 31. In response, Pakistan threatened to boycott the World Cup if they lose the hosting rights to the Asia Cup.

Looking for a compromise, the Asian Cricket Council said the regional tournament will be hosted in a 'hybrid model' with four matches held in Pakistan and the remaining nine in Sri Lanka.

— Additional input from Reuters

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