A meeting between Sanjiv Goenka, chairman of the RP-SG Group, and Virat (the India captain across all three cricket formats), preceded the announcement. The World Cup is just over three months away and with the perpetrators of the massacre, JeM, based in Pakistan, Virat’s next step will be closely watched by many. What if Virat and the other seniors petition the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that they wouldn’t like to play Pakistan even in multilateral competitions? In the upcoming edition of cricket’s showpiece competition, India are scheduled to play Pakistan in Manchester on June 16. Two decades ago, too, India played Pakistan in the same city and at the very same rich-in-history Old Trafford.

Source: The Telegraph February 16, 2019 21:45 UTC