Main point:
In the World Championship of Legends 2025, India refused to play the semi -finals against Pakistan. This decision was taken after the recent Pahalgam attack. Easemytrip also separated himself from the match. Now Pakistan can reach the final directly.
Delhi: The World Championship of Legends (WCL) 2025 semi -finals between India and Pakistan will no longer be. Indian players have refused to play in this match to be held on July 31 in Birmingham.
The match was also canceled in the group stage between India and Pakistan. The reason for this was that 22 people died in the recent Pahalgam terror attack. Due to this, some Indian players like Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina had already refused to play against Pakistan.
India Champions to be out of the semi -finals?
Under the captaincy of Yuvraj Singh, India Champions have won only one match which was against the West Indies Champions. Despite this, the team had reached the semi -finals, but now due to not playing the match with Pakistan, India can be out of the tournament and Pakistan can reach the finals directly. However, no official information about this has been made public yet.
Sponsor Easemytrip also took a big decision
Easemytrip has also separated itself from the India-Pakistan semi-finals. The company’s co-founder Nishant Pitti said that terror and cricket cannot run together. He said, “The people of India have said their point and we are listening to them. Easemytrip WCL will not be associated with Pakistan vs Pakistan match. Some things are bigger than sports. The country is first, business later, always, always.”
The remaining two semi -finalist teams
Apart from Pakistan, South Africa and Australia have reached the semi -finals. After the withdrawal of India, now Pakistan has a chance to win the WCL Trophy for the first time.
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