Former England captain Michael Etharton has called for the International Cricket Council (ICC) to reconsider the recent Asia Cup 2025 in the recent Asia Cup 2025, to reconsider the scheduled matches between arch-rivals India and Pakistan.
The Asia Cup 2025 was full of controversial incidents that had surpassed cricket. In particular, India won 5 wickets against Pakistan in Dubai last month. The play began on September 14 when Indian players refused to join hands with the Pakistan cricket team.
Michael Attarton reacted to the Asia Cup 2025 controversy
The tension increased during the Super 4S match, where Pakistani players Haris Rauf and Sahibzada Farhan were engaged in stimulating gestures, which ignited further controversy.
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The drama ended with the victorious side with the victorious side, which refused to accept the trophy from internal minister Mohsin Naqvi in the final of the Asia Cup 2025, also president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Meanwhile, Michael Attarton reported that India-Pakistan matches bring large-scale economic benefits, including huge broadcasting revenue for the ICC, but said growing political and diplomatic stresses now make these fixtures a high-risk game.
Michael Attarton says India-Pakistan matches are getting high risk; Urged to reconsider the fixtures from ICC
The former England captain has argued that the India-Pakistan clashes and the growing enmity between the clashes and the financial appeal archives cannot justify, suggesting that it may be time for the ICC to consider an option to prevent future conflicts and get out of the region.
Michael Atherton wrote in his column for the Times: “Despite its lack (perhaps, in part, due to its deficiency), it is a stability that carries a huge economic clot, one of the main reasons that the broadcast rights for the ICC tournament are of a lot of price for $ 3 billion for the most recent rights in 2023-27.
Due to the relative decline in the value of bilateral matches, the incidence of ICC has increased in frequency and importance, and therefore the stability of India and Pakistan is important for the balance sheet of those who otherwise will have no skin in the game. ,
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Michael Etharton slam ICC for money for India-Pakistan rivalry
Attarton criticized the ICC to continue India-Pakistan matches for economic benefits. He said that intensive rivalry, once seen as a way to promote goodwill, is now being used as a platform for promotion and tension by India and Pakistan.
The British further explained, “If cricket was ever a vehicle for diplomacy, it is now a proxy to clearly, wider stress and propaganda. In any case, in any case, in any case, for a serious game, for a serious game, to arrange tournament connivance to their economic needs, and now rivalry in other ways is being exploited in other ways, it is also less justified.”
The commentator has suggested that the future ICC tournament schedule should be more transparent and India and Pakistan should not be made automatically to face each other in every event. Attarton signed, saying, “For the next broadcasting rights cycle, stability should be transparent before ICC events, and if both teams do not meet every time, then it is so.”
In particular, the match between India and Pakistan in Colombo on the recent ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 was no less dramatic. Players of both teams ensured off-field tension and Asia Cup 2025 drama with their gestures during the match.
