Pakistan Cricket Team Arrives In India After Seven Years Ahead Of Cricket World Cup 2023

The Pakistan cricket group arrived on Wednesday, its first go to to India in seven years, to compete within the ODI World Cup starting on October 5. The Babar Azam-led aspect will spend quite a lot of time in Hyderabad, having arrived from Dubai the place it had a protracted 9 hour layover. The squad had left Lahore within the wee hours of Wednesday and reached Hyderabad within the evening. Pakistan play their opening warm-up sport in opposition to New Zealand on September 29 earlier than taking over Australia on October 3. They open their match marketing campaign in opposition to Netherlands right here earlier than battling with Sri Lanka on October 10. The Pakistan gamers had received their Indian visas lower than 48 hours earlier than their scheduled journey. Both India and Pakistan solely face one another Asia Cup and ICC occasions as a result of tense relations between the 2 international locations.

Only Mohammad Nawaz and Salman Ali Agha have visited India for cricket. Babar couldn’t performed the T20 World Cup in India in 2016 as a result of an harm.

#WATCH | Telangana: Pakistan Cricket group arrives at Hyderabad airport, forward of the World Cup scheduled to be held between October 5 to November 19, in India. pic.twitter.com/j1kFvqGJM2

— ANI (@ANI) September 27, 2023

“The BCCI has assured the ICC that all teams will be provided the best security and will be well looked after so I don’t expect anything different for our team. I don’t think our team will face any issues in India,” head of PCB administration committee Zaka Ashraf advised reporters earlier than group’s departure.

Ahead of the group’s departure, Babar had spoken about his pleasure over taking part in in India particularly Ahmedabad the place the arch-rivals lock horns in entrance of a one lakh plus crowd.

“Although we have not played in India before, we are not taking too much pressure. We have done our research and we have heard the conditions are similar to how they play out in other Asian countries,” mentioned Babar within the pre-departure media convention.

“I am excited to play in Ahmedabad as it will be jam-packed. I will try my best to perform up to my potential. I am not worried about my individual accolades, I want to make sure whatever I do helps the result for the team,” he said.