Asia Cup 2023 Schedule Announcement Highlights: Tournament to start on 30 August, IND vs PAK 2 September
Asia Cup 2023 Schedule Announcement Highlights: Tournament to start on 30 August, IND vs PAK 2 September
20:13 (IST)
That's all from our side. The Asia Cup schedule is out and it starts on 30 August. The final is on 17 September. Thank you for joining us. Good night.
20:07 (IST)
Asia Cup 2023 schedule announced in Pakistan
20:03 (IST)
The Asia Cup 2023 schedule was originally planned to be revealed in Pakistan during a PCB press conference but Jay Shah announced it an hour earlier with a tweet. In any case, PCB's event is currently underway where Zaka Ashraf, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board management committee, will be unveiling the schedule in the host country.
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Asia Cup 2023 Full Schedule:
Group A: Pakistan, India, Nepal
Group B: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan
30 August: Pakistan vs Nepal - Multan, Pakistan
31 August: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka - Kandy, Sri Lanka
2 September: Pakistan vs India - Kandy, Sri Lanka
3 September: Bangladesh vs Afghanistan - Lahore, Pakistan
4 September: India vs Nepal - Kandy, Sri Lanka
5 September: Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka - Lahore, Pakistan
6 September: A1 vs B2 - Lahore, Pakistan
9 September: B1 vs B2 - Colombo, Sri Lanka
10 September: A1 vs A2 - Colombo, Sri Lanka
12 September: A2 vs B1 - Colombo, Sri Lanka
14 September: A1 vs B1 - Colombo, Sri Lanka
15 September: A2 vs B2 - Colombo, Sri Lanka
17 September: Final - Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Asian Games schedule:
13 matches will be played in the tournament. India are in Gorup A with Paksitan and and Nepal while Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are in Group B.
Format: Top two teams from groups will qualify for Super Four. Top two teams from Super Four will play in final.
19:18 (IST)
BREAKING: Asia Cup schedule announced! BCCI secretary Jay Shah takes to Twitter to reveal the schedule
I am happy to announce the schedule for the highly anticipated Men's ODI #AsiaCup2023, a symbol of unity and togetherness binding diverse nations together! Let's join hands in the celebration of cricketing excellence and cherish the bonds that connect us all. @ACCMedia1 pic.twitter.com/9uPgx6intP— Jay Shah (@JayShah) July 19, 2023
19:07 (IST)
Jay Shah to not visit Pakistan for Asia Cup
BCCI secretary Jay Shah has rubbished reports he will be travelling to Pakistan for the initial round of matches in this year's Asia Cup.
“I have not agreed to anything. This is just plain miscommunication. Probably done deliberately or mischievously. I’ll not be making any visit,” Shah said.
19:59 (IST)
ICYMI
PCB had threatened to boycott this year's Asia Cup, pull out of the ACC, even skip travelling to India for the World Cup later this year following a proposal to shift the tournament entirely to a neutral venue.
The drama though has largely subsided since the ACC, headed by BCCI secretary Jay Shah, accepted by the "hybrid" solution floated by then-PCB chief Najam Sethi which had Pakistan hosting four matches.
18:47 (IST)
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) recently made a U-turn on the hybrid model, and stated that it wanted to host more matches. This was after it had given its consent for the tournament to go ahead in the "hybrid model", where it would host four matches in Pakistan with the remainder of the tournament taking place in Sri Lanka.
18:37 (IST)
IND-PAK on 2 September
The schedule will be out soon but it has been reported that India will face Pakistan on 2 September in Kandy. The report also said that Asia Cup will start on 30 August and not on 31.
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What do we already know?
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Nepal will compete in a total of 13 ODI matches in Asia Cup 2023. The tournament will be hosted on a hybrid model in which Pakistan will get four games while remaining nine games will be held in Sri Lanka.
18:15 (IST)
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the schedule and trophy for the 2023 Asia Cup, which will be carried out by Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Lahore on Wednesday.
The announcement will take place at 7.15 pm local time (7.45 pm Indian Standard Time). Stay tuned for more updates.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf is set to announce the full schedule and also unveil the trophy for the upcoming edition of the Asia Cup in Lahore on Wednesday.
The announcement by the PCB chief will take place at Lahore’s Pearl Continental Hotel at 7.15 pm local time (7.45 pm Indian Standard Time) and will bring to an end an extended period of speculation over the continental event that returns to the 50-over format.
The tournament was supposed to be hosted entirely in Pakistan, which would have made this the first multi-nation event to take place in Pakistan since 2008 as well as the first since the 2009 terror attack on the Sri Lankan bus in Lahore.
India’s reluctance to travel to Pakistan for the tournament, however, had since led to a major showdown between the BCCI and the PCB, with the latter threatening to boycott the ODI World Cup, that will take place in India later this year, in retaliation.
However, a compromise has since been achieved by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), the body responsible for organising the tournament. Instead of moving the tournament entirely out of Pakistan, some of the matches will take place in Lahore and Multan while the remainder of the tournament will take place in Sri Lanka, though PCB retains the hosting rights for the matches in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka had won the tournament that took place in the UAE in the 20-over format last year, defeating Pakistan by 23 runs at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on 11 September.
India and Pakistan had faced each other twice in that tournament. While India won the group encounter by five wickets, Pakistan would win the Super Four fixture by a similar margin. Both Indo-Pak encounters would take place in Dubai.
This year’s Asia Cup is being seen as an important tournament for all the participating teams, minus Nepal, to get some much-needed practice ahead of the ODI World Cup that takes place in India between 5 October and 19 November.
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