The Pakistan Cricket Board is set to express its displeasure at Board of Control for Cricket in India chief Anurag Thakur's comments on relations between the two countries at the International Cricket Council's upcoming executive board meeting in Cape Town.
Thakur had called Pakistan a country that "sponsors terrorism" and also closed the door on India-Pakistan bilateral ties. The Bharatiya Janata Party MP had also requested the ICC to not club the two nations in the same group in multi-nation tournaments.
Former PCB chairman Najam Sethi had promised to censure BCCI officials and also questioned if it was Thakur, the politician, rather than the cricket administrator, who had lashed out at Pakistan. Sethi, demanding clarification from the BCCI for its stand, also pointed out that ICC guidelines strictly discourage politics to spill onto the administrative side of things.
"Pakistan's stance is simple...first Anurag Thakur must clarify at the ICC meeting whether he gives statements as a politician of the ruling party in India or as President of the BCCI since the ICC constitution discourages politics in cricket," a PCB official was quoted as saying by PTI.
The report also stated that the Pakistan delegation plans to discuss India taking home a large portion of the profits from encounters between the two countries at ICC events, yet refuse to play a bilateral series since 2007. The official also stated that the PCB will ask for a review of the "Big Three" proposal, where India, England and Australia stand to earn a major portion of the cricketing revenue.
"Pakistan will be pushing for a review of the Big Three governance formula under which the head of corporate costs India take home nearly 32% of the earnings followed by England and Australia with 18% and 12%, which leaves nothing for other boards," the official added.
The official also said that the PCB would press for compensation charges from the ICC for India refusing to play against them for bilateral meetings for the last nine years.
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