Amir sees two options for Pakistan amid Asia Cup, World Cup deadlock

With each passing day, tensions between Pakistan and India regarding Asia Cup are piling and riling as both parties are not ready to bow down - Pakistan fairly; India maybe not.

Former cricketer Muhammad Amir, while talking on his YouTube channel, stated that there are only two ways to go about this whole fiasco. Either Pakistan will end up agreeing to play the World Cup in India and, if they don't, let the national players play whatever they want in that time window.

"If the board wants to go to India, then they have to play Asia Cup anywhere, without any choices given. If they [board management] have decided that 'no, we aren't going for World Cup, no matter what.' Then they are supposed to take a back seat and let the boys play wherever and whatever they want, for instance, CPL or The Hundred, during that period of time, i.e., August or September. Players also have county contracts, so they can play freely without any strict national commitments," Amir said.

Keeping in mind that the BCCI already rejected the idea of sending their team to Pakistan for this year's Asia Cup, insisting that the entire event to be conducted in a neutral location.

On the contrary, the PCB is insistent about hosting the event in its territory, or at least a portion of it; otherwise, it will abandon all efforts to bring international cricket back to the country.

Pakistan and India are known arch-rivals based on their historical grounds; fans on both sides of the border eagerly await their face-off on the cricket field. However, it is regrettable that neither national team hasn't played each other on home soil in any format of the game since 2012.