NEW YORK: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has changed hotel for Pakistan cricket team following PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi expressed discontentment with the team members’ stay far away from the cricket stadium in New York, local media reported on Thursday.
Taking notice of the accommodation for Pakistan, the News reported, the PCB chief contacted the ICC, expressed reservations and dissatisfaction, and convinced the World Cup management to change the Pakistan team’s hotel.
Upon his interference, Pakistani players have been made to stay at a hotel five minutes away from the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, where Pakistan are scheduled to play two games — on June 9 and 11. Earlier, the hotel they were staying in was at a distance of 90 minutes from the stadium.
Strangely, the Indian team was accommodated just ten minutes away from the cricket ground in New York, while apart from Pakistan some other teams’ hotels were also more than an hour away, they said saying that Sri Lanka and South Africa had also expressed reservations over the facilities provided to them during their stay in New York.
