Vikrant Shekhawat : Sep 25, 2023, 09:58 PM
World Cup 2023: Cricket World Cup is about to start in India and the first match of the tournament is to be played on 5th October. Meanwhile, the Pakistan team has got approval to come to India and the ICC has confirmed that the Indian government has given visa to the Pakistani squad. This news has come when the Pakistan Cricket Board had expressed its displeasure to the ICC on Monday itself over not getting the visa.Actually, Pakistan has to play its first warm-up match on 29th September, before that the team has to reach Hyderabad on 27th September. But till now the Pakistani team and its support staff could not get visa. However, the visa was approved late on Monday evening. According to Pakistan Cricket Board spokesperson Omar Farooq, the board has written a letter to the ICC and expressed concern over the difficulties being faced in getting visas for the World Cup.PCB has said in the statement that it is very sad that the Pakistani team has to go through these difficulties, that too when it has to go to participate in the biggest tournament. PCB said that we had to completely change our plans before the warm-up match, because the players have not yet received permission to go to India.Let us tell you that the Pakistan cricket team had to first stay in Dubai for a few days and then leave for India. But due to not getting visa from India, Pakistan had to cancel its team bonding plan and had to make the entire plan again. Pakistan has to play its two warm-up matches and two opening league matches in Hyderabad only, so now the team will come directly here.Pakistan's schedule in World Cup 2023:
- 29 September vs New Zealand (warm up match)
- 3 October vs Australia (warm up match)
- 6 October vs Netherlands
- 10 October vs Sri Lanka
- 14 October vs India
- 20 October vs Australia
- 23 October vs Afghanistan
- 27 October vs South Africa
- 31 October vs Bangladesh