Asia Cup future hangs in balance

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Asia Cup future hangs in balance

By AFP Published: January 4, 2014

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Asian Cricket Council chairman and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chief N Srinivasan (L), Chief Executive of the Asian Cricket Council Syed Ashraful Huq (R) attend a Asian Cricket Council (ACC) meeting in Colombo on January 4, 2014. PHOTO: AFP

COLOMBO: 

Asia Cup’s future hangs in the balance as conflicting reports about holding the event in Bangladesh emerged on Saturday.

The Chief Executive of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Ashraful Haq claimed that violence-plagued Bangladesh would remain the venue for next month’s Asia Cup and added Afghanistan as the fifth team in the regional one-day tournament.

“The tournament will go ahead as scheduled in Bangladesh from February 25,” said Huq after an executive board meeting in Colombo.

However, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) issued a press release later in the day stating that no final decision has been made in this regard.

“The matter of the Asia Cup in Bangladesh was discussed at length with emphasis on the current security situation,” said the PCB in a statement.