The vice president of BCCI, Rajeev Shukla, in an interview on Monday said the final decision regarding the traveling of Indian national cricket team to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy next year will be taken by the Indian government.
Pakistan will be holding the ICC ODI event from February 19 to March 9.
“No decision has been taken (yet). But our policy is that whenever there are foreign tours, for international tours we have to the leave application from the government. It is the government who have to decide as to whether our team has to go to any country or our team has to be restricted from going to any country,” Shukla told reporters on Monday.
“In this case also, whatever the government will decide, we will accept,” he stated.
Shukla was speaking to the media on the sidelines of the second ongoing Test between India and Bangladesh.
Like most teams, India and Pakistan meet each other only in III events. Bilateral cricketing ties have been suspended by India to Pakistan because of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that left over 150 people dead in turn in, in 2008.
Within a span of 7 years after a t20 event held there in 2009 due security concerns, a crusade was conducted in India last year.
