{"id":1204115,"date":"2024-11-05T19:39:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/?p=1204115"},"modified":"2024-11-05T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:09:08","slug":"india-and-pakistan-set-to-play-together-afro-asia-cup-to-comeback-after-almost-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/news\/india-and-pakistan-set-to-play-together-afro-asia-cup-to-comeback-after-almost-20-years-1204115\/","title":{"rendered":"India and Pakistan set to play together? Afro-Asia Cup to comeback after almost 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Africa Cricket Association (ACA) has given confirmation that the Afro-Asia cup, featuring an African XI facing an Asian XI, will be reenacted. At the Annual General Meeting (AGM), the ACA announced a six-member temporary committee to investigate some ways to increase players&#8217; chances in Asia and Africa. South Africa hosted the first edition of the tournament in 2005, with India hosting the tournament right next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong><em>The Afro-Asia Cup, apart from the cricket, brings the much-needed financial input to the organisation, and the appetite is huge from both ends<\/em><\/strong>,&#8221; said, Tavengwa Mukuhlani, the interim chair of the ACA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong><em>We have had conversations with our counterparts within the Asia Cricket Council, and obviously our African contingents, they want the Afro-Asia Cup to be revived<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d he further added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cricketers from India and Pakistan might get an opportunity to play in the same lineup is the Afro-Asia Cup is held. India and Pakistan have not taken part in a bilateral relation since January 2013, and have instead only faced off in ICC and ACC competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian and Pakistan cricket players might get an opportunity to play in the same lineup is the Afro-Asia Cup is held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":1204120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[37388,131,459,221],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>IND and PAK to play together? 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