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No official word on Asia Cup in the UAE

Hindustan Times Bengaluru

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July 25, 2025

The build up to Thursday's Asian Cricket Council (ACC) AGM in Dhaka was marked by simmering tensions between the Indian and Pakistani cricket boards and concluded with no official announcement of the 2026 T20 Asia Cup, slated to begin in the second week of September.

- Rasesh Mandani

The election of the ACC Vice President was also not taken up and the meeting was adjourned.

Itis understood further deliberations are required for the upcoming edition of the Asia Cup to come into force for which the BCCI have the hosting rights. “We are in consultations with the BCCI and hopefully we will resolve the (issues) very soon,” Mohsin Naqvi, Chairman, PCB and ACC told reporters after the meeting.

For the tournament to remain commercially attractive, retaining the current structure where both India and Pakistan start in the same group to facilitate a return clash of the arch rivals in the next round anda possible third clash in the final is important.

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