BCCI’s refusal to send its team to Pakistan for the Asia Cup 2023 forced the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to come up with a hybrid model.

According to reports, the hybrid model will allow Pakistan to host four matches while rest of the games, including all of India’s fixtures, will be held in Sri Lanka.

However, BCCI is yet to accept this proposal officially and the development has infuriated former Pakistani pacer Mohammad Amir, who feels the Indian board isn’t giving PCB the respect it deserved.

“The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is being completely written off, which means it is being treated disrespectfully. It’s like the cricket board, or Pakistan cricket itself, has no worth at all, and they [BCCI] are making continuous efforts to prove that,” Amir was quoted as saying by Cricket Pakistan.

“It is being proven that whatever you do, it doesn’t affect us, and it’s like if you tell a child not to eat a chocolate, he will say I will eat it and will continue to say the same thing. Whenever PCB says to do this or that, BCCI comes up with various lame excuses like bad weather, the expenses are too high, security reasons,” he added.

BCCI had declined to send its team to the neighbouring country citing security concerns and a lack of government clearance.

Amir dismissed India’s security concerns argument by pointing out the ICC officials visit to Pakistan.

“There is only one model, and that is cricket. Let it stay right; whether it’s happening in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, or Bangladesh, please let it happen peacefully instead of with unnecessary stubbornness like children. If someone creates a security issue even in Pakistan, the ICC team was here four days ago; I was also there at the National Cricket Academy. PCB provided them with such hospitality."