PCB unhappy with split points, contemplates taking matter up with ICC

On Wednesday, the ICC announced that the series cancelled due to the COVID-19 lockdown has resulted in the respective teams splitting championship points. As a result, both India and Pakistan got three points each and that meant that India qualified for the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2021.



On Thursday, Sportstar reported that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is contemplating taking up the matter with the ICC, given that Pakistan have to play the qualifying tournament to get to the global competition.



“We are of course disappointed with the decision,” said Ehsan Mani, the PCB chief, before adding, “but our team is reviewing the matter. Once that’s done, we will be able to comment.”



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ICC’s statement a day prior to that read, “India and Pakistan share points after their series could not be played; points also split for the South Africa v Australia and Sri Lanka v New Zealand series cancelled due to COVID-19.” The ICC technical committee stated that the series between India and Pakistan couldn’t be played because of a Force Majeure event after BCCI showed that it couldn’t obtain the necessary government clearance.



In 2016, when the two teams failed to play a series as a part of the ICC Women’s Championship, India had forfeited the points and had played the World Cup Qualifiers in order to play the Women’s World Cup in 2017. This time around, Australia, England and South Africa had already qualified, New Zealand had made it by virtue of being the host nation and India became the fifth nation to qualify.