BCCI Secretary and Asian Cricket Council chief Jay Shah on Tuesday confirmed that India will not travel to Pakistan for the 20 Asia Cup. The tournament will take place at a neutral venue,” he added, speaking at the Indian cricket board’s AGM.

Shah, however, added that any future tours of Pakistan will be the government’s call. 

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  “We’ll have Asia Cup 2023 at a neutral venue. It’s the government that decides over the permission of our team visiting Pakistan so we won’t comment on that but for the 2023 Asia Cup, it is decided that the tournament will be held at a neutral venue,” Shah said at BCCI’s AGM in Mumbai. 

Asia Cup next year is slated to be hosted by Pakistan. Jay Shah’s statement came days after BCCI sources said that the board is open to sending the Indian team to participate in Pakistan. 

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The Men in Blue last toured Pakistan for a bilateral series in 2005-06. Rahul Dravid was the captain. The two countries last played a bilateral cricket series in 2012-13 when Misbah-ul-Haq and co toured India for three T20Is and as many ODIs. Since then, the two teams only face each other in ICC tournaments. 

They will lock horns in the T20 World Cup 2022 on October 23. 

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At the BCCI AGM, World Cup winner Roger Binny was elected as the 36th president of the board, taking over from Sourav Ganguly. 

Binny, 67, was elected unopposed and Jay Shah was re-elected as the secretary for a second successive term.

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The other office bearers who were elected unopposed included treasurer Ashish Shelar, vice-president Rajeev Shukla and joint secretary Devjit Saikia.

Binny, who played 27 Tests and 72 ODIs for India, takes charge ahead of the ODI World Cup in India next year.