Wasim Akram the Pakistani left-arm pacer has lashed out at ICC, for its inability to make a deal between the arch-rivals India and Pakistan for a bilateral Series.
The issue was around for a while now, Pakistan Board has tried it's best to make a deal with India in assistance of ICC, but the political tension between the nation's meant, there is no way the bilateral ties gonna Settle in near future.
While Akram says, sports and politics are two different things to handle at once and felt, that ICC doesn't have the power to pursue BCCI.
"I don't think ICC has the power to pursue BCCI, but again I have always said people-to-people contact is necessary. Politics and sport should be kept separate," Akram was quoted as saying by Geo TV.
Meanwhile, Akram made an imperative claim saying, an India-Pakistan match draws more attention than that of Ashes, where he draws the comparison of viewers between the two clashes.
"A Pakistan-India match is more fun to watch than the Ashes. Twenty million people watch the Ashes while a Pakistan-India match is watched by a billion people," emphasized Akram.
India and Pakistan played there last bilateral Series back in 2012-13 in India, since then the rival nations only participated in ICC events and in Asia Cup.
Although, there has been a new ODI league coming up in 2020, where each of Top 13 teams should play each other in bilateral Series, and it will be interesting to see whether that push the arch-rivals to tie up.
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