Politics Over Sport

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Islamabad: Actress Urwa Hocane believes that the reason why all the matches of the Asia Cup 2023 are not being played in Pakistan is because of Indian politics, “due to which the Indian cricket team is not playing a single match properly”.

Actress Urwa expressed her disappointment by criticising Indian politics during the Asia Cup 2023 on social media platform X. Indian politics has descended to such a low level that it is preventing its team from playing matches properly to avoid playing on Pakistani grounds, she stated.

Pakistani model further wrote that India wants to disrupt the match due to rain which is against international sports spirit.

The #AsiaCup2023 has got me thinking how arrogant & petty is Indian politics to not let their team play a single match properly just so they don’t play on host #Pakistan grounds.They’d rather deal with rain, make their team suffer & compromise the international sport spirit! Sigh

— URWA TUL WUSQUA HOCANE (@VJURWA) September 4, 2023

Hocane’s reference is towards rain in India’s two matches in the Asia Cup. There was rain in India’s matches against Nepal and Pakistan, which benefited the Indian cricket team and they were given one point each in both the matches.

A total of six teams, including Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Nepal, will compete against each other in the Asia Cup.

Pakistan is hosting the Asia Cup tournament this year. But since the Indian cricket team decided not to visit Pakistan for the tournament, only 4 of the 13 matches will be played in Pakistan, while the rest will be played on the grounds of Sri Lanka.

In an Al Jazeera report, Karachi-based cricket analyst Saad Shafqat believed that Pakistan was not allowed to host the entire tournament due to India’s unfriendly and negative attitude.

It is also worth mentioning that the important match between India and Pakistan on September 2 was postponed due to rain. The fans were hopeful to see the entire match but after India’s batting, Pakistan could not bat. As the match was rained out, one point was shared between the two teams.

Apart from this, the match between India and Nepal in Group A match of Asia Cup on September 4 was also rained out.

Due to rain in this crucial match, India won by 10 wickets, scoring 147 runs under the Duckworth-Louis-Stern Method (DLS) without loss, after which India entered the Super Four stage.