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PCB Issues Blanket Ban On Future Participation In WCL After 2025 Edition Embarrassment

The decision comes after several Indian players, including Shikhar Dhawan, had voiced their refusal to face Pakistan in Birmingham in the league stage of the tournament.

Indo-Asian News Service
Updated: August 03, 2025 12:57 pm IST

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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has banned future participation in the World Championship of Legends (WCL)
PCB criticised WCL for awarding points to India Legends after they forfeited the semi-final match
India Legends withdrew from their semi-final against Pakistan citing refusal of several players to play

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The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced that it is issuing a blanket ban on future participation in the World Championship of Legends (WCL). As per the governing body of Pakistan cricket, WCL's statement and actions, following the decision by India Legends to pull out of the semi-final against Pakistan, were ‘tainted with hypocrisy and bias' “The PCB, during its 79th BoG meeting held virtually under the chairmanship of Mohsin Naqvi reviewed with considerable disappointment WCL's appalling conduct of awarding points to a willfully forfeiting team, and the content of the press releases of the WCL announcing the cancellation of the scheduled India vs. Pakistan legends matches, which were tainted with hypocrisy and bias.

“The contents of the said press releases highlight a duality where the narrative of “peace through sport” is selectively applied and sporting events are held hostage to political expediency and narrow commercial interests.

“In light of this unfortunate development, which underscores a clear and intolerable pattern of external influence and a disregard for the principles of sporting neutrality, the Pakistan Cricket Board is compelled to take a firm stance. The PCB can no longer condone participation in an event where the fundamental principles of fair play and unbiased administration are compromised by external pressures,” read the statement by PCB.

Several Indian players, including Shikhar Dhawan, had voiced their refusal to face Pakistan in Birmingham in the league stage of the tournament. The two sides were slated to meet again in the semi-finals before team India opted to pull out of the game instead.

PCB's virtual BoG meeting was attended by Sumair Ahmed Syed, Salman Naseer, Zaheer Abbas, Zahid Akhtar Zaman, Sajjad Ali Khokhar, Zafarullah Jadgal, Tanveer Ahmed, Tariq Sarwar, Muhammad Ismail Qureshi, Anwaar Ahmad Khan, Adnan Malik, Usman Wahla (special invitee) and Mir Hassan Naqvi (Additional Secretary).

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