The International Cricket Council (ICC) has created a dispute resolution panel to hear Pakistan's compensation claim against arch-rival India for refusing to play a bilateral series.
Sporting ties between the cricket-mad South Asian neighbours have suffered in recent years amid rising political tensions, and Pakistani cricket authorities say that their Indian counterparts have violated a 2014 memorandum of understanding, under which the two were to play six bilateral series between 2015 and 2023.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is seeking $70 million in compensation. It initiated the dispute resolution proceedings against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), at the ICC, in November 2017.
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A three-member panel will hear the claim later, in 2018, the sport's world governing body said in a statement, on Tuesday. “The hearing will take place in Dubai from October 1-3, and the decision of the Dispute Panel shall be non-appealable, and binding on both Pakistan and India,” the ICC said.
The BCCI refused to play two series against Pakistan in 2015 and 2017, saying it did not have the permission from the Indian government because of the strained relations.
India-Pakistan ties, including sports and cultural contacts, plummeted after the 2008 militant attacks in Mumbai, which New Delhi blamed on Pakistani militant groups.
There has been just one bilateral tour since, when Pakistan visited India to play two Twenty20s and three one-day internationals in December 2012 to January 2013. They have, however, continued to play each other in multinational events like the World Cup.
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