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Former Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed urged the Indian males’s group to go to Pakistan for the 2025 Champions Trophy, promising security and expressing the Pakistani public’s love for Indian cricketers.
Sarfaraz Ahmed and Shikhar Dhawan earlier than the India-Pakistan conflict. (PC: ICC/Instagram)
Former Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed has urged the Indian males’s group to contemplate visiting his nation for cricket on the sidelines of the 2025 Champions Trophy. Ahmed promised security and mentioned that the Pakistani public ‘loves India and their cricketers’ and needs to precise that whereas watching them reside of their grounds.
Pakistan is the official host of the Champions Trophy however India’s matches are being performed in Dubai. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) had deliberated and selected the hybrid mannequin earlier than the match. Below the deal, Pakistani males’s and ladies’s groups can even not journey to India for ICC matches within the close to future.
“I’ll let you know the overall view of the Pakistani folks — they wish to see the Indian group in Pakistan,” Ahmed informed reporters in Dubai, as quoted by PTI. “The folks of Pakistan love India and their cricketers rather a lot they usually respect them rather a lot. The best way worldwide cricket has returned to Pakistan within the final 7-8 years. Steve Smith, Kane Williamson, Pat Cummins and different prime stars of world cricket have performed in Pakistan,” he added.
“The Pakistani folks need the Indian group to return to Pakistan and they’ll get quite a lot of love there. They need to come, every part is (going) excellent. The entire match (Champions Trophy) is being organized properly and every part is being held safely,” he mentioned.
Ahmed, the final captain to win the match in 2017, is among the ambassadors for the Champions Trophy.
No distinction between Karachi and Mumbai: Sarfaraz Ahmed
Ahmed additionally mentioned that there’s not a lot distinction between the folks and the tradition of India and Pakistan and the types are ‘precisely the identical’.
“I believe there isn’t any distinction. Our solely downside is the road, our tradition is similar. Should you speak, I reside in Karachi. The model of the folks of Karachi and Mumbai is strictly the identical,” he mentioned.
“We additionally converse quick there. I additionally converse quick. So it’s all the identical. I bear in mind very properly, in Delhi, I went to the outdated sadar (market) in 2007. The outdated sadar was similar to the sadar in Karachi. I believe there isn’t any distinction in issues. Individuals are the identical. We simply need that the Indian group involves Pakistan in order that our folks may see Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah taking part in in Pakistan,” he added.
Pakistan received the toss and opted to bat first in Dubai.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)