Include England and make it Euro-Asia Cup if you want to stage it there: Butt

Najam Sethi, the head of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), recently proposed the idea of hosting the Asia Cup in England.

“England could be a possibility as a venue for the Asia Cup,” Najam Sethi said in a interview with an Indian media outlet.

However, Salman Butt, a former Pakistani cricketer, expressed his reservations about hosting the Asia Cup in England, stating that it would not make sense to have a neutral venue for a tournament that is meant to represent the Asian continent.

“A neutral venue like this [England] is not viable for Asia Cup, it will not make sense as it will mean that there is not a single venue in Asia where it could be held,” Salman Butt said.

Butt argued that for the sake of giving options, you can provide as many as possible, but it is important to see if they are feasible or not.

“You can include England in it and make it Euro-Asia Cup. You can also give this suggestion. In the past, Austral-Asia Cup used to take place in which Australia participated. You can also include Ireland and Netherlands in it. It would be a World Cup like event, as it will have six teams from Asia and four countries from Europe, so it will be a ten-team tournament. It will be dress rehearsal for World Cup,” he said.

 You can come up with as many ideas as possible but you also have to see what is practically possible,” he added.