{"id":1187,"date":"2017-11-11T12:23:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T12:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:28:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:28:24","slug":"pakistan-legend-wasim-akram-criticised-the-international-cricket-council-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2017\/11\/11\/pakistan-legend-wasim-akram-criticised-the-international-cricket-council-icc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan legend Wasim Akram criticised the International Cricket Council (ICC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wasim Akram on Friday hit out at the International Cricket Council\u2019s (ICC) inability to pursue the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to play a bilateral series with Pakistan.<\/p>\n

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Akram said it is very unfortunate that young cricketers from Pakistan and India are unable to play against each other.<\/p>\n

The Sultan of Swing said that an India-Pakistan clash is more exciting to watch than the high-octane Ashes series between traditional rivals England and Australia.<\/p>\n

The BCCI, in 2014, had agreed to play six bilateral series with Pakistan from 2015 to 2023, four of which were to be hosted by the Pakistan Cricket Board<\/p>\n

However, with political tensions across the border, the BCCI has refused to play any of the agreed series yet, neither in Pakistan nor at any neutral venue.<\/p>\n

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Wasim Akram on Friday hit out at the International Cricket Council\u2019s (ICC) inability to pursue the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to play a bilateral series with Pakistan. Akram said it is very unfortunate that young cricketers from Pakistan and India are unable to play against each other. The Sultan of Swing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[460,461,458,455,454,459,457,453,463,462,451,452,456],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-460","tag-2015-to-2023","tag-ashes-series","tag-bilateral-series","tag-board-of-control-for-cricket-in-india-bcci","tag-england-and-australia","tag-india-pakistan-clash","tag-international-cricket-council-icc","tag-neutral-venue","tag-pakistan-cricket-board","tag-pakistan-legend","tag-wasim-akram","tag-young-cricketers"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}