Forward of the ICC World Cup 2023, the previous Pakistan cricketer Ramiz Raja travelled to India and was noticed co-hosting a pre-match present with former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar in the course of the Pakistan vs New Zealand warmup match on September 29 at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Cricket Stadium.

For the uninitiated, Ramiz Raja, who beforehand served because the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, made the assertion that Pakistan would possibly boycott the World Cup 2023 if Crew India refuses to journey to Pakistan for the 2023 Asia Cup. He persistently reiterated this stance, and ultimately, India did skip the Asia Cup, whereas Pakistan needed to journey to India for the ICC World Cup in 2023.

“If Pakistan doesn’t participate within the World Cup scheduled in India subsequent yr, who will watch it? We now have a transparent stand: If the Indian crew comes right here then we’ll go for the World Cup. In the event that they don’t come then they will play the World Cup with out us,” Ramiz Raja had stated.

“We are going to undertake an aggressive strategy. Our crew is displaying efficiency. I’ve all the time stated we have to enhance the economic system of Pakistan cricket, and that may solely occur once we carry out properly. Within the 2021 T20 World Cup, we beat India. We beat India within the T20 Asia Cup. In a single yr, the Pakistan cricket crew defeated a billion-dollar economic system crew twice,” Raja had added.

Following Ramiz Raja’s resolution to journey to India, regardless of his earlier calls to boycott the 2023 World Cup, social media customers started to criticise him, accusing him of being hypocritical.