Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ramiz Raja said that there’s a no bigger rivalry than the India-Pakistan contest. He said that if Pakistan plays India in any corner of the world, people would stop to watch it.
Earlier he suggested the idea of quadrangular series involving Pakistan, India, Australia, and England in the T20 format as each nation would get the opportunity to host on a rotation basis.
“Hello fans.Will propose to the ICC a Four Nations T20i Super Series involving Pak Ind Aus Eng to be played every year, to be hosted on a rotation basis by these four. A separate revenue model with profits to be shared on a percentage basis with all ICC members, think we have a winner,” Ramiz Raja tweeted this on Tuesday.
Hello fans.Will propose to the ICC a Four Nations T20i Super Series involving Pak Ind Aus Eng to be played every year,to be hosted on rotation basis by these four. A separate revenue model with profits to be shared on percentage basis with all ICC members, think we have a winner.
— Ramiz Raja (@iramizraja) January 11, 2022
“Playing five bilateral T20Is is tedious”- Ramiz Raja
Since the 2012-13 series in India, Pakistan never played a bilateral series with India. In that tour, Pakistan won the ODI series by 2-1 while the T20I series was drawn by 1-1.
“We want to move forward. Look at the numbers from the T20 World Cup. When Pakistan plays India the world stops to watch and it’s a great spectacle. We have to see what fans want and we have do what is right. We have to talk about this and elaborate what we want to do. There is a potential discussion in the works that I want to table to the ICC and see how it goes,” Ramiz Raja spoke to ESPNCricinfo
The next ICC meeting members meeting will be in March when Ramiz Raja is lily to present his idea. Raja stated that the long T20I series (like 5-match) doesn’t create that much interest as a tri-series or quadrangular series,
“There are numerous rivalries like Ashes, Pakistan-India rivalry so it can’t go wrong when four T20 sides come and play each other. We need to whet the fans’ appetite as they are getting fatigued, and we need to create something outside the FTP,” Raja said.
“Playing five bilateral T20Is is tedious, but if three or four nations play each other rather than bilateral series, that has a massive potential in terms of generating revenue. It’s not like we need to create a parallel body like the Big Four, but it’s about generating interest and the income can go to the other boards too,” he added.
Meanwhile, There is a lot of cricket lining up for Pakistan to host in the next 18 months as Babar Azam & co. will Australia, England, West Indies, and New Zealand.