‘Day India-Pakistan Stop…’: PCB Warned of Identity Crisis if They Boycott ICC T20 World Cup Game

ICC T20 World Cup 2026: Following boycott of the India sport on the upcoming T20 World Cup, Pakistan has been facing heavy criticism. Vulnerable India cricketer Aakash Chopra is basically the most as much as date to present his two cents on the matter. Chopra, who typically speaks his coronary heart out, reckoned that Pakistan will suffer from identification disaster within the event that they boycott the sport against India on February 15 in Colombo. 

Chopra admitted that Pakistan will get or not it’s international relevance thanks to India and now within the event that they take hold of a call of this magnitude, this might occasionally seemingly perhaps also simply not simplest hurt them financially, nonetheless additionally attain cricket within the nation. He additionally added that Pakistan’s crawl will not attach any damage India one bit. 

“Pakistan cricket is important not because they play well – as they don’t play well. They have reached the final of an ICC event only twice in the last 10 years. They last won in 2017 and reached the final in 2022. It’s not like they are an incredible cricketing team,” Chopra talked about on his YouTube channel.

He added: “Pakistan is important because the India-Pakistan rivalry is alive. The day you kill that rivalry, the day India and Pakistan stop playing against each other, India will continue on their merry way – but Pakistan’s value, in terms of what they bring to the table, absolutely diminishes.”

Pakistan play their T20 WC opener on February 7 against the Netherlands. 

Pakistan squad for ICC T20 WC: Salman Ali Agha (captain), Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Khawaja Mohammad Nafay (wicketkeeper), Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Salman Mirza, Naseem Shah, Sahibzada Farhan (wicketkeeper), Saim Ayub, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shadab Khan, Usman Khan, Usman Tariq.