LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has sought a proof from the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) following India’s nationwide anthem was mistakenly performed at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore.
The incident occurred through the high-voltage Australia-England conflict in Champions Trophy 2025 on Saturday.
Previous to the beginning of the sport, India’s nationwide anthem briefly performed for a second earlier than being stopped. Nevertheless, the video shortly went viral on social media.
After England’s anthem concluded, it was time for Australia’s anthem, however as a substitute, a line from India’s anthem began taking part in.
Sources revealed that the error was as a result of ICC, because the playlist for the Champions Trophy 2025 was ready by the cricket governing physique and included anthems of all eight collaborating groups, together with India.
Notably, Indian group has not traveled to Pakistan and can be taking part in all their matches at impartial venues below the hybrid mannequin.
In the course of the 2024-2027 occasion cycle, all matches involving India in an occasion hosted in Pakistan can be performed at a impartial venue, and in return all matches involving Pakistan in an occasion hosted by India can be performed at a impartial venue.
This settlement applies to the 2025 males’s Champions Trophy in Pakistan, the 2025 girls’s ODI World Cup in India, and the 2026 males’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka,” the report learn.
The hybrid mannequin may apply to the 2028 Ladies’s T20 World Cup, which has now been awarded to Pakistan and is the opening competitors of the following ICC cycle.
The report added that the ICC has additionally mentioned that it has no objection to the organisation of a triangular Twenty20 Worldwide match that features India, Pakistan, and one other Asian Full Member nation (or an Affiliate Asian nation to make it a quadrangular), supplied that the competitors is held at a impartial location.