{"id":269687,"date":"2026-02-02T04:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/269687\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:15:07","slug":"pakistan-to-play-in-t20-world-cup-but-will-boycott-india-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/269687\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to play in T20 World Cup but will boycott India clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/pakistan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pakistan<\/a>\u2019s government says the national <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/cricket?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cricket<\/a> team will be allowed to take part in the coming T20 World Cup but must boycott its group game against arch-rival India.<a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/india?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India<\/a> and Sri Lanka are co-hosts for the 20-team tournament, which starts on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The two teams are scheduled to meet in a Group A game in Colombo on February 15 in what is often a tournament highlight for fans, broadcasters and organisers alike. That is looking in doubt this time.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan grants approval to the Pakistan cricket team to participate in the ICC World T20 2026,\u201d the government posted on Sunday on its official social media account. \u201cHowever, the Pakistan cricket team shall not take the field in the match scheduled on February 15 against India.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No reason was given for Pakistan boycotting the game against India, but Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Mohsin Naqvi had criticised governing body International Cricket Council (ICC) for \u201cdouble standards\u201d by refusing to shift Bangladesh\u2019s games to Sri Lanka. <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/bangladesh?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bangladesh<\/a> was replaced by Scotland for the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s government says the national cricket team will be allowed to take part in the coming T20 World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15867,7861,140596,140594,1120,4784,85,207,140595,46,140591,35105,338,64454,140593,105,29584,140592],"class_list":{"0":"post-269687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-agence-france-presse","9":"tag-bangladesh","10":"tag-champions-trophy","11":"tag-colombo","12":"tag-dubai","13":"tag-icc","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-international-cricket-council","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-kamran-akmal","19":"tag-mohsin-naqvi","20":"tag-pakistan","21":"tag-pakistan-cricket-board","22":"tag-shehbaz-sharif","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-sri-lanka","25":"tag-t20-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}